Chungking has not "acquiesced" in the situation contrary to rumours. A report from Chungking quotes u spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Chungking as stating that the Chinese government had not consented to the change of the admipistrative changes in Shanghai, including the change of the Land Regulations. The Chinese government. would not recognize the Provisional Council because the Chinese members of that body had not been legal ly elected, he is further quoted as saying.
Editorially, the "National Herald pictured a very gloomy outlook for Shanghai on Thursday. The paper outlined a number of programme. that the Japanese might be interested in carrying out in the Settlement ana strongly urged the Chinese to remove their Wealth and idle money to the interior,
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