The paper continued that, suppress. sive measures against publications which treat terrorists as "patriots" must not be neglected and added that "while we cannot dispense with the collaboration of the Shanghai Municipal Council with regard to these searches and controls, we must ask the Settlement authorities for guarantee of liberty to take direct action in such occurrences."
In. closing, the "Tairiku Shimpo" pointed out' that the infiltration of terrorists Into the Japanese controlled areas was the result of 9 special circumstance in that Shang. hal is not under complete control of is quila natural, per, that the Shanghai Municipal Council should share the responsibilities for the current tor-rorism, as far as the maintenance of peace and order in Shanghai is con. corned.
'The "Shanghai Mainichi," another Japanese-language paper, editorially expressed sympathy for' those law. abiding Chinese who would be great ly inconvenienced by frequent Japanese searches and challenges. The paper foresaw a widening of sphere of terroristic activities in proportion reverses suffered by the Chungking Government, warning the Japanese population of more sinister methods of terrorism in future, but advocating full preparedness and calmness meet the emergency.
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