Representations relating maintenance of order in the Interna Hlonal Settlement and the French Concession have been made repeated-to the authorities concerned by the Mayor of the Special Municipality of Shanghai, Mr. Fu. But those reprosentations, we are given to under: stand, have not even been answered Although the Japanese army and authorities, upon whom falls entire responsibility forthe maintenance of peace and order in the occupied territory of Centra China, have many things which thes would request of the Settlement jorities, they do believe that the representations above-mentioned are fof untent importance, and hereby Geclare that thes support. those representations in their entirety, and {will watch subsequent developments with the deepest cancer Asked if any government had recognized the "Reformed" regimes. China, a military spokesman stated that they had not, but. the fact wained that Mayor Fu was the de facto authority in. the areas around Shanghai, He added. "in reply. to another questioner, that Wwe requests had been made by the Japanese authorities to the French Concession find the Settlement bodies These would have been easy indeed (or the Japanese forees to have resorted to force to wipe out anti-Japanese Communist clements of Chinese planning in the Settlement and Concession and to have halted the pub-Teation of anti-Japanese newspapers and magazines, the distribution of anti-Japanese literature, as well {to have assumed control of the vari-fous agencies of the Kuomintang. regime. The arrests of high Kuomintang army olflesrs could have been effected." he went on, "and any mosures deemed necessary for the maintenance of peace and order in Shanghai could have been Introduced.
"However, taking into consideration the peculiar character of the Seitlement and Concession and the fact that the Japenese forces. placed their reliance on the ce-operation of the two police authorities for the maintenance of peace and good order within the Settlement and the French Concession, it can be said that these two areas are only maintaining their stains because of the fact that the forces occupying the Shanghai area are Japanese," he continued, "tad the Chinese forces been in the same position." Col, Mabuchi added, "it Is quite possible that the Concession and the Settlement would singe long have disappeared. In this sense alone it may be said that the Japanese forces have saved the Con cess and Settlement."
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