Contrary to previous reports, the Japanese community through its communal organization has named only two candidates for election to the Shanghai Municipal Council and therefore the election, excluding unforeseen circumstances, will be.a formality. At a meeting of the Japanese Residents' Corporation yesterd. ihe two candidates selected were Mr. O. Okamoto, the well-known lawyer, and Mr. T. Sugisaka, manager of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. Other foreign candidates selected for the Municipal Council through their national committees are: British: Brigadier-General E. B. Macnaghten, Messrs. W. J. Keswick, Roderick G. MacDonald, F. N. Matthews and G. E. Mitchell. American: Messrs. Cornell S. Franklin and W. H. Plant.
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