Japan Urged Not to Give Away Shanghai, July 14.
Japanese acquiescence to British proposals for a settlement of the /Pientsin dispute would be "fatal," Major-Gen, Susumu Morioka, director of the Special Service Section of the Japanese Army in Hankow, told the the "Tairiku Shimpo in an inter= view here on Wednesda Japanese weakening at the Tokyo conversations will have a much seater effect upon the Chinese people than upon the Japanese 1 tion, as it will cause a heightening of British prestige in China," the Japanese officer was quoted as saying. "Great care should be taken so that we shall not admit British demands."
The solution of various questions concerning concessions in Chino, Major-Gen. Morioka said, depended upon the determination of the Japat exe authorities. "The recent trouble we had with the French Concession in Hankow was easily solved when we showed our determination." he declared. The steps taken by the Japanese garrison in Tientsin against the French and the British Concessions there were described by the officer as "natural", Yangtze Opening Impossib The reopening of the Yangtze at the present time, Major-Gen. Morioka continued, was "impossible"
Mare than 700,000 Chinese inhabitants had returned to the triple cities of Wuhan, with 500,000 of them in Hankow alone, according to Major-Gen. Morioka, who expected the population to show a marked increase in the autumn. "Some sections of Wuchang were being quarantined now because of a cholera outbreak,
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