Anxiety Over August 13
Anniversary; Police Force Strongly Criticized With the approach of August 13 the first anniversary of the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities th Shanghai area, local Japanese are anxious to prevent a repetition of the reign of terror that claimed the lives of their ce-nationals on July 7 local Japanese newspapers reported yesterday.
A statement bitterly assailing the Shanghai Municipal Police for its failure to seize "even a single cul-brit" of the July 7 outrages was issued on Monday by the Foreign Relations Committee of the Japanese Residents' Corporation, the "Shanghai Mainichi" said.
A demand that more drastic mea sures against terrorists be taken by the S.M.P. will be conveyed to Mr Shinrokuro Hidaka, Japanese consul-general, by Mr. Masusaburo Amano. president of the corporation, for transmission to the Council, the paper added.
The alleged inefficiency of Municipal Police was ascribed in the statement published in the "Mainichi" to the "lack of training" and to the "negligence" of responsible police officials.
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