Naval officials, called on Mr. K. M. Bourne, Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and conferred h leading police officials until 1.15 p.m. No statement was released either by the police or the Municipal Council with regard to the subject of the three hour conversation,. it being presumed however that anti-terrorist measures and the maintenance of peace and order in the western district, were discussed.
Amongst the Japanese officials who attended the meeting wer Colonel Hirota, of the Special Military Service Section, Commander Mitsumobu, of the Special Naval Service Section, Colonel Kanaya, of the Japanese Military Police, Lieutenant-Colonel Takata and Major Hayashi of the Japanese Military Police, Mr. Saka, Chief of the Japanese Consular Police in Shangand Mr. Y. sono, Consul. Amongst the police officials understood to part in the conversat Major Bourne. Ccmmissicrr H. M. Smyth.
Mr. G. W. Gilbert and Mr. C. Akagi Dep: ty Commissioners, id not b ed whether additional conferences would be held in the near future,
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