The Archive · 1939

Demands Repeated

Amoy, May 23.

Reconsideration by' the Kulangsu Municipal Council of its virtual rejection of "five Japanese demands, presented on May 13, was asked in yesterday by Mr. Goro Uchida, jose Consul-General here, Domei learned today.

'The Japanese oficial renewed his demands for increases In the Japanese Personnel of the Council, the sup-Dression of anti japanese' activities, and the granting of a voting franchise tw Japanese subjects of Formosan extraction.

Mr. Uchida was understood to have Jdeclared that the Kulangsu Interna-Settlement was assuming rous chafaeter" by serving as base for hostile acts against Japanese. Joceupied Amoy and as a hotbed" of nese Intrigue, Asserting that the peace and. good order was of Amoy, because of the prox!

Settlement to the eit¥, the Japat official was reported to have said Arrogant Challenge Tokyo, May 26: Asserting that the. Shanghai and Me Uchida further held as insumthe iment of twelve Bull's arro challenge, "Yomiuri bun" declares that raven if th 1g Kaieshek regime' were blown to bits, British ambition fund persistent intrigues to rest Japan, would remai would be well," the paper adds, "for our leaders to abandon the illus sion that there is still room for compromise."—Reuter, yese to the Council's police force insisted that Japanese subjects Furmosan_ extraction should be granted a voting franchise. This, he contended, would not contravene' the Land Regulations—Domei.

Tokyo Concerned Tokyo, May 23.

Japanese official circles viewed with mounting concern the note states that this passage gives

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