Consul-General Goro Uchida, in Amoy, was reported to have issued the following statement on June 7:—Reports, that Amoy is a city of ruins and that its population of 180,- 000 has been reduced to 10.000, because of the Japanese occupation, are vicious and groundless. ince the economic foundation of rests upon remittances from overseas Chinese, it es sential to acquaint them with the realities of the situation here at present, "With postal, banking and shipping es near normal and Chinese combatants residing under the benign protection of the Japanese Gow minent, we cannot but hope that Overseas Chinese would remit or lend for the rehabilitation of the
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