Chungking, May 2 The report that the, Chinese Gov ernment has. given, vtocltaequieeence" tothe esiebllshment in Shang. fal'et a Provisional Council is cate= Gorieany denied, by the. spokesman Ef'the Chinese Foreign Once.
tts emphasized that neither the selling pet's Provisional Cowell wor the "modifeation of any' of the provisions of the land Regulations has Feceived the approval In any form of the. Chinese' Government.
"ime Chinese Government cannot acquiesce In the composition of a Shine whose Chinese members are Sol inwiully chosen by the Chinese Tatepayers it is" declared -<Weuter Tue Shanghai Municipal Couneit health report for the week ending midnight May 3, shows that the total number of ' deaths from ad) causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement was—Forelgners 17 and Chinese 1025, Deaths from notifiable diseases were—Forelgners, tuberculosis 3 and typhoid. fever, "beri-beri one each. Chinese, tuberculosis 72; typhoid fever 39; measles 15; cerebrospinal fever 5; smallpox 3; dysentery 3; relapsing fever 3; influenza 2 and diphtheria, leprosy, encephalitis lethargic' one each, This is a picture of some of the Netherlands Royal family, Prine Juliana, who is depicted behind her heroic mother, Queen Withelmina, celebrated her birthday on April 30, young children, ice Bernhard, her husband, o Chinese Members of S.MP.C. Accepted Shanghai, May 3.
Being powerless to do anything owing to absence of both Civic and government leadership, the Chinese in Shanghai has to accept the Provisional Council of the Settiement. which met for the fact me on Thursday as a matter of course. Chinese here realize the seriousness of the changed situation but so far outwardly they kept calm and disapproval is evident only in their press.
The attitude of the press is reflected by the wording of the report about the meeting of the Provisional Council. "The administration of the Shanghai Municipal Counei} hag already undergone a change. It is hard. to predict what future has in stock Mr. L. T. Yuan (a Chungking nominee believed under the thumb. of Nanking) has "even" attended the meeting. Another Chungking nominee, Mz. Yulin Hsi, was the only one of the 16 members of the Provisional Couneit who was absent.
Informed Chinese circles stated yesterday that it would be dificult expect Mr. Hsi to attend the meet ing of the new administration unless Chungking so orders. In the case of Mr. Yuan, coercion was rumoured to have been used. as was recently reported by the Chungking press' that he had been detained at the Astor House Hotel.
Rumours Denied Chungking has not "acquiesced" in the situation contrary to rumours. A report from Chungking quotes a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Chungking as' stating that the Chinese government had not consented to the change of the administrative 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 jegally elected, he is further quoted as saying, Eaditorially, the "National Herald" pictured a very gloomy outlook for Shanghai on Thursday. The paper outlined a number of programmes that the Japanese might be interested carrying out in the Settlement and strongly urged the Chinese to remove their wealth and idle money to the interior.
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