"It is evident that, in spite of the assertion by the Shanghai Municipal Council that recent terroristic activities in the Settlement have been planned in the Western district, in gambling dens and opium dens, in varicul&r, there is no clearly estab lished connection between what is going on in the Western District ana the terroristic activities within the Settlement, "It seems hardly, possible that the plots for the attacks on February 10 and February 13 upon the stations of he police administration of the Shanghai Special Municipality in the Western district could have been hat-shed an the western area. The implication contained in the Council': vatement that zll of the 144 armeó iminals captured by the police from february 1 to February 8 came from. he Western district is also incorrect!
"The Japanese authorities have ^ndecvoured to clean up the so-called Western district but have been un able to achieve their objective be-ouse of the marked lack of co-opera jon from the Shanghai Municip: Police, For instance, the Council: refusal to agree io a reopening of he station of the police administra. tion of the Special Shanghai Muni cipality on Great Western Road i: out an example of this lack of cooperation.
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