Afterwards, however, the British Municipal Police adopted the attitude that the evidence secured by the Japanese gendarmes against the four men was inconclusive and despite the Japanese requests tne men were not handed over, That was the reason, Mr. Tashiro declared, why he had little faith in the efficacity of the wider powers of discretion granted by the Foreign Office to Mr. Jamieson. It might well be in future cases involving terrorists that while the Japanese gendarmes considered the evidence against a suspect suffice lent to warrant his being handed over for trial by the Chinese authorities. the British Municipal Police might think otherwise, He could not say that the granting of these wider powers appreciably changed to situation, since the crux of the present problem was the handing over of the four men requested.
Regarding the two men whom the British Municipal Police had offered to turn over to the Chinese authorities, Mr. Tashiro admitted they were dangerous anti-Japanese elements, and he thought the Chinese autho: ties would accept the offer. Nevertheless, they were not the men particularly wanted.
These two men, Mr. Tashiro revealed, were arrested by the British Municipal Police last February. One was a member of a notorious gang of terrorist-gangsters and the other the "Chief of Staff of the anti-Japanese elements who had their base in the British Concession."
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