On the facts adduced by careful investigation of the evidence, the Shanghai Municipal Council has rejected the protest and demands. made by Mayor Fu Sigo-en, of the Shanghai Municipality, in regarding to the shooting on Jessfeld Road last Saturday. Claiming that the Municipal Police patrol party shot first, and, in any case, were illegally patrolling fan extra-settlement road the sovereignty which should revert to the Special Municipality, Mayor Fu demanded the punishment of the, police officer involved, damages, an apology and the surrender of police and administrative. rights on all outside roads. Mayor Fu's action has been "backed by the Japanese authorities who have also registered strong protest against the action of the Municipal Police based fon grounds similar to those quoted by the Mayer.' Developing that peculiar extending incidents to limits inconceivs cept by a tortuous mind, the nationalit police officer was evoked Arita-Craigie "agreement" in Tokyo, although he is only a servant of an international body. In dealing with the Incident, the Municipal Council has adopted a perfectly correct attitude. The contention is that the police officer was merely carrying out his duty, and if the Special Municipality or the Japanese are dissatisfied with the facts on which these conclusions are based, the Council is agreeable to an en= quiry by' disinterested person or persons. In the face of this statement and the Council's offer, the attitude of the Japanese authorities is peremptory and unreasonable, to cay the Toast, It smacks of an attempt to Juidge and act upon situation without paying heed to the facts. and if the Council's version is inaccurate. would be as unfair to act upon it as it would to accept the Special Municipality version, The Councils offer has this important point to commend it: it is submitted to the test of any di interested court of enquiry. Nothing fairer could be offered than this, but the unfortunate feature of the many issues involving Japanese and other interests is that the Japanese are too Prone to accept only one version—thelr own—when it sults their purpose to introduce traneens and irrelevant issues to achieve their
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