'Shanghai, Apr. 1, Butrick, "Consul" in ch se of the American Consulate-Ge eral in Shanghai, and Mr, Mealy, manager' of radio station XMHA, "called on Mr. Y. Miura, Japanese Consul-General' in' Shang. hal, yesterday afternoon, (0° request that the Interference which has been Jamming the station be discontinued, the Japanese. Embassy spokesman id yesterday, Mr. Miura pointed it to the American ofeial and the New York Comment on Shanghai Elections New York, Apr. 15.
Possible dangers which may result from the defeat of the Japanese candidates in the Fecent elections of the International Settlement of Shanghai were the subject of an editorial In the New York "Herald Tribune" today.
"The Shanghai elections may seem like a very tiny square in the smallest teapot," the paper "Actually there may be in it, however, the makings of a war in the Pacife."
"Japanese spokesmen," the paper added, "hasten to say they will have the votes next year and can afford to wait. But will the army wait? The next in order is a demand on the treaty powers for the re-procession of the Settlement through the new regime in Nanking. Next after that is its rejection by the British and American "Governments, Shanghai's original concession= aires. The tempest is, indeed, a wee one but the teapot is the Pacific, so this wee tempest deserves watehing."—Havas, radio station manager that actual fads would have to be ascertained before any steps could be taken, On April 6, the spokesman said, Mr, Bulrick telephoned to the Japanese Consul-General to say that there appeared to be interference with the wavelength of an Amerieanowned radio station for several days, A letter from Mr. Butrick to Mr. Miura on April 9 on the same sul ject gave the location of the alleged source of interference. Upon -investigation it was revealed that the place mentioned was not interfering with the broadcast of XMHA and consequently "it had not yet been ascertained from where the inter= ference was coming or whether it was caused by Japanese or other 'AS a result of the interference, the spokeamn ssi, GOA cited
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