The Archive · 1939

Japanese Interpretation Of Customs Agreement

Shanghai, Feb. 15 Asked if any news had reached the apanese authorities in Shanghai regarding'a, change inthe. Japanese {terpretation in Tokyo of the Anglo-Javanese Customs agreement an En-anay spokesman at the Japanese press fonferenee lat night stated that they fad feeeived no information But, from the direction in which events had been moving, there was undoubtedly a basis for the report:

"The report of the changed interpretation of the agreement came Press. despateh from TORY®, it Was While the violence and murders of the last two or three months have received wide publicity and need not bbe here enumerated again, it is interesting 10 look at a few figures regarding the various rackets as they have developed up to this date. The data given below have been obtained afler exhaustive enquiries, "made from various sources, and are thought to give an accurate picture of one phase of the present situation and the not too pleasant possibilities it still entails,

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