On the eve of his departure on short leave, Mr, G. Godfrey Fnuliips, Secretary and Commissioner-General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, yesterday emphatically denied the report, disseminated here by radio, that he was about to resign and would leave Shanghai for good.
"The thought never entered my mind," Mr. Fnillips said at his office yesterday. "As announced, I am going away on Sunday for three weeks, to Hongkong and Singapore. I have not had a holiday for over a year. This is it."
Mr. T. W. Gubb, Deputy Secretary, will act as Secretary and Commissioner-General while Mr. Phillips is away.
Mr. Phillips said no definite new Progress had been made in the negotiations with the Shanghai Special Municipality over the western "outside roads" area, The important phases, such as policing and taxation, are still under discussion, and no con-Crete plan has as yet been agreed upon. It is not expected that a settle. ment will have been reached by the Chinese Spring holidays, A detailed statement regarding a joint police force for the extra Settlement area, which appeared in a morning newspaper yesterday, was characterized by Mr. Phillips as entirely unauthorized, and misleading.
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