The Archive · 1939

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Shanghai, Jan, 23, Mr. Chikayuki Akagi, Speciat Depuiy Commissioner of Police, is planning to distribute his salary increase. among Japanese policemen, the "Shanghai Mainichi" stated yesterday.

iis action was expected to mitigate the dissatisfaction felt. by minor Japanese officials over the wide diserepancy in the salary increases recently announced by the Shanghai Municipal Council, the journal said.

Adding its voice to the chorus of critical Blasts hurled at the S.Mt for ils holly discussed salary policy, the "Mainichi" said the increases would benefit only the high ofleiats, while, "thas In "the lower strata would not gain much by. the Much interest In the question has been manifested by the Japanese community, the paper said, smuggling of Formosan sugar into /Shanghai a Japanese Embassy spokes man stated "yesterday that large Jquantities of "Formosan sugar had arrived in Shanghai during the latter Dart of December. 7 fe assumed that as the shipments arrived late they had not been in-eluded in the Customs Returns for that month and there was the fact {hat the sugar may have been classed as Japanese,

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