Tokyo. May 20.
Opinion was gaining strength among Japanese ofticals in Shanghai that Japan "would be compelled to take action independently" to carry fut her fixed policy toward the Inter~ Rational Settlement, the Shanghai correspondent of the' "Tokyo Nichi Nicht" chain of newspapers cable today.
Fresh developments in the situation were expected by the correspondent tupan the return to Shanghat of Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese Consul-Gen Mr. Aura, who is now in Tokyo conferring with his superiors-in the Foreign Ofiice, is expected to arrive. back in Shanghai on May, 27, Friday's mobilization of the Shang~ hai Volunteer Corps and of Munieipat. police, the corresponder Said, while ostensibly for the purpose of suppressing terrorism, was design-fed_as an anti-Japanese demonstration.
Such a situation, he continued, coupled with the British and the American rejection of Japanese views regarding a revision of the Land Regulations suggested "grave dif culties" in securing a reorganization the Municipal Council through Siplomatie means—Domel.
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