Greater Japanese representation the Shanghai Municipal Council, in proportion to the number of Japanese residents mand around the Inter~ tional. Settlement, which now ox-coeds 80,000, was demanded by Mr. 'Yokichi 'Hayashi, "President of th Japanese Ratepayers' Association, in 'a. lengthy statement in which' significantly remarked that the Japan ese no longer could remain unconcerned with the administration of the Settlement, Eighty-thousand Japanese are living in and around the International Set-Wement, Mr. Hayash! pointed out in his stalement, which was issued on the occasion of the inauguration of the Japanese Ratepayers' Association The administration of the Settlement stressed, greally affects the lives these 60,000.
Japanese, Mr. Hayashi went on, are notin' the Toast satisfied with' the "unfair state" of the Settlement administration, alleging that the British, Whose. number {otuls not more than 7,000, have five representatives on the Municipal Council and are thus able ty "monopolize" the Settlement's ad-
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