Tokyo. Sept. 10.
Chinese military authorities are paying no attention to the Japanese terms for establishing a safety zone -|in Hankow and are utilizing foreign concessions in consi neting military positions, according to information received here today The reports said Hankow was becoming a "huge fortress" with every available vantage point being fortified. The Nationalist Government is not only constructing military works it the neighbourhood of foreign cessions but is utilizing the concessions "in frantic efforts to defend Hankow against Japanese attacks," the reports stated.
The Japanese proposal to recognize a safety zone stipulated that no military works were to be constructed in the old foreign concessions and that the Chinese troops must not use the concessions for military purposes.
The British and French Am sadors were said to have called the attention of the Chiang administration to the Japanese t and to have requested the gov A Sino-Japanese firm known as the Shanghai Immovable Property Company, Limited, was inaugurated here yesterday to finance and promote harbour rebuilding works and city in sources close to the e: nment" reported last night.
Organization of the company followed ihe announcement by the "Reformed Government" of an am-bilious scheme for the development and rebuilding of a greater Shanghai.
Capitalized at Y.20,000,000, the company also will engage in the follo enterprises: sales, purchases an movable property easing of lands and building: in] trust transaction: and other businesses relating to bue!) properties.
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