London, Feb. 23.
Newspaper comments upon the situation which has arisen in Shanj hai all reveal indignation at Japanese pretensions to greater control of the International Settlement. They emphasize that the Japanese themselves are primarily responsible for murders, for the breakdown of law and order, and for the general absence of cortrol in the "badian is.
"The Times," in offering comment on the present serious situation in Shanghai, states that the "Japanese are alarmed and disconcerted by the death rate among their hirelings, who naturally are regarded as traitors by patriotic Chinese, "They are now making dire threats to Shanghai Municipal Council, which they accuse of incompetence and insincerity.
"Tne tatter charge is: ronic, seeing that the Japanese maintain and intigate within the International Settlement their own organization of Chinese terrorists,
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