"It will also be recalled that, on more than one occasion, officers of the Imperial Army, both in uniform and in disguise, have broken into the Settlement, and committed acts of hooliganism.
"It is greatly to the credit of the municipal authorities, who at no time nave received the ce-operation of the Japanese, that the murders are sporadic, and not wholesale "If the Japanese took over control of the Settlement, Shanghai would be in a state of chaos within a week."
The "Manchester Guardian," also commenting on the situation in Shanghai, states that the Municipal Council "can in no wise be blamed, for their police are as tough and experienced as any in the world,"
Together with the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the paper goes on to emphasize, they have "done a magnificent job in preventing rioting and strife."
"Numbers of Japanese, disguised as Chinese terrorists, and acting as provocative agents, have been discovered, and have been returned to headquarters with the polite request to keep out of the Settlement.'
"To send Japanese soldiers into the Settlement to act as police would certainly cause a serious crisis."
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