While American authorities are trying to localize the incident in which sixteen plain-clothes Japanese gen-Jdarmes.were detained and subsequent.
released by American Marines in the western district on July 7, the Japanese are making a issue of it and anti-American agitation and _propaganda have been started in Hong-Lew. The "Sin Shun Pao" states that posters demanding the "chastisement" of the American' marines have apeared in Hongkew streets, and one Jof such posters is photographed and: Published.
"American Military Inhuman Out rages have Aroused'Indignation among Japanese Subjects," reads the headline of the main story onthe front page of the paper, which also carries a banner "headline readin "Japanese Residents Indignantt Aroused, Demanding Punishment of American Soldiers for Outrages."
hinted by the paper that "empty apology" will not be enough to settle the affair.
alleged that the American' marine authorities have tried (0 shift the responsibility of the affair to the 'Shanghai Municipal Council and can-rot explain the wounds received by the detained gendarmes. Indignation has not only been aroused among the Japanese military, but also Japanese residents. "'Their' slogans are. with= drawal of Americans from the Far: East and disarmament of the American defence force, it is stated, Meetings to be Meld In a separate story it is alleged' that authorities of the Shanghai Municipal Council have depended on Americans for preventing Japanese from entering the Settlement, Tels recalled that last year Ameri-con marine authorities here notified the Settlement police that the former. would not allow Japanese gendarmes to enter their sector, although the latter had allowed gendarmes to go south of the Creek, This American nolifeation, it is argued, "one-sided" procedure and therefore its legal "foundation is The paper also carries a very strongly. worded editorial entitled "Outrages of American Military." Compensation for the detained sixteen Japanese gendarmes and punish ment of the American marines involved are demanded, The Japan ese Residents Association 1s reported to be preparing to hold a meeting to discuss the "emergency situa tion," A Japanese women's organiza tion is als participating in the anti-American movement.
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