TRESSING the need for a positive solution of questions concerning the International Settlement of Shanghai and the French Concession there, and also urging Sino-Japanese ce-operation in the movement for the liberation of East Asia, Col. Itsuo Mabuchi, director of the Press Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, praised the far-sightedness of the original demand made by General Iwane Matsui, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, for putting the Settlement and French Concession of Shanghai at least temporarily under Japanese military control.
Col. Mabuchi expressed his opinions for a speedy solution of the Shanghai question in a written statement on "A New Meaning to the Memorial Day of August 13" which concerned the outbreak of fighting at Shanghai and was published here on Tuesday ior the anniversary yesterday.
In praising General Matsuis advocacy of Japanese military control over the International Settlement and French Concession, Colonel Mabuchi recalled that it would have been most fitting to have done so at the time when the Japanese Army took over occupation of Nantao on November 12. It was highly re-grottable, Colonel Mabuchi remarked in his essay, that the opportunity had not been taken at that appropriate occasion.
Forebearance to do so, the writer emphasized, only went to prove at what inconvenience to—themselves the Japanese did everything possible for the maintenance of world peace. Certainly none but a Japanese, said Colonel Mabuchi, į could fully appreciate Japanese conscientiousness in these matters.
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