Emphasizing the determination of the various police forces here to take concerted action against terrorism in Shanghai was a resolution passed at a meeting held in the Council chamber yesterday afternoon between Mr. Y. Miura, Japanese Consul-General, a high police official who represented the French Consul-General who was unable to attend in person, and officials of the Shanghai Municipal Council. The conference was called by Mr. W. J. Keswick, Chairman of the Council, who invited the officials concerned to meet for the discussion of the possibility of extension of. mutual ce-operation between the various police organs here in their campaign against armed crime.
It was resolved at the meeting to arrange for the holding of regular meetings between the chiefs of the various police forces in Shanghai to devise effective means with a view to putting an end to the terrorism which has been sweeping the city in past months and brought in its wake a harvest of crime.
Although the French Consul-General was absent, the ce-operation of the authorities of the French Concession with the scheme was assured by his representative.
The conference yesterday followed in the heels of the recent exchange of correspondence between the local Consular Body and the Municipal Council on the subject of terrorism. It will be recalled that at a meeting of the Consular Body called to deal with the situation utter condemnation and international abhorrence were expressed by the consular officials present of terrorism and all it im-
Joint Board Holds First Meeting to Talk Over Coordination of Plans Ottawa, Aug. 27.
The United States-Canadian Joint Defence Board met here for the first time yesterday and! discussed the coordination of the two nations' defences for more than four hours.
The meeting was held in the Railway Committee room in the House of Commons Building. Mr. O. M. Biggar, chairman of the Canadian board,' said the session was "most useful and satisfying.
The inaugural session, it was understood, was devoted mainly to taking stock of the joint defences now available, Plans for safeguarding the Pacific frontiers as well as the Atlantic coasts were also discussed, it was understood.
The conference involved, at least indirectly, Britain's efforts to buy Atty over-age destroyers from the United States as well as American plans to lease sites for naval and air bases on British possessions in the Western Hemisphere.
Five representatives of each country comprise the joint defence board.
When the joint committee met today it had available a mass of statistics on defence compiled by the Canadian and American armies and ies, Any joint defence arrangements completed by the board probably will be applied first to New-found land, informed quarters believed—United Press,
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