The annual cocktail party of the Shanghai Municipal Police Club was held at the Club, in Foochow Road, at noon yesterday and was attended by members of the Police and their wives, and invited guests. The happy function took place in the festively-adorned main club-room where sessonal wishes were exi by about 200 guests, including a number of the Police who recently returned from Home leave. difficulties such occupation imposed on Third Party Powers the Japanese Army decided to withdraw.
The Japanese Congul-General in Canton informed the British Consul-General there of the steps taken by the Army, the spokesman said. The statement of the Japanese Consuiaccording to the spokesman, declared that out of a spirit of iriendlinoss to Britain the Japanese Army evacuated Shumchun on their own initiative. Should the same be again used by the Chintse forces or as a base of anti-Japanese operations, the Japanese Consul-General was reported to have said, or should the district be permitted to become a supply route for the Chinese the; Japanese Army may reoccupy the area at their own convenience.
Shumchun was occupied by the Japanese Army on August 16 when a force of 500 men took possession of the village. Later the Japanese troop and equipment concentrations along the British territorial border led the British authorities to take sweeping defensive precautions. There was a state of tension prevailing in the Colony for almost two weeks but this tension relaxed as the Japanese made no hostile move against British territory.
Major K. M. Bourne, Commissioner, was present with other senior officers. These included Capt. H. M. Smyth, Mr. G. W. Gilbert, and Mr. T. Robertson, Deputy Commissioners, and Mr. E. C. Baker, Mr. H. D. M. Robertson and Mr. I. Kakegawa, Assistant Commissioners. The arrangements were made under the direction of Mr. Gilbert, Detective Inspector J. C. Dickson, hon. secretary of the Club, and others.
The Police and Jail staff both were well represented at the gathering.
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