POSITION IN SHANGHAI

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3440, 8 March 1932, Page 5

POSITION IN SHANGHAI

PERMANENT JAPANESE GARRISON.

RESENTED BY CHINESE.

SITUATION STILL DANGEROUS.

(Press Association. —Copyright.) . (Received 12.20 pm.) Shanghai, March 7. The Tokyo statement that the Japanese intend keeping a permanent garrison here is perturbing the Chinese officials, who, however, have not attempted to enter into negotiations regarding the status of the area at present occupied. The local situation is steadily growing worse. The Chinese refuse to recommence business and the native banks remain closed, while the majority of the shops are only doing a surreptitious business. The Chinese object to foreign interference at Chapei, where the conditions threaten the health of those in the foreign areas. The Japanese have asked the Settlement authorities to control the cleaning and policing of Chapei, but they refuse unless asked by the Chinese.

Meantime the Japanese are consolidating their positions on the front. It is reported that there is a heavy concentration of Chinese at many points beyond the 20-kilometre zone. Incoming passengers by the Yangtze River steamers report heavy firing on Sunday in the Liuho area.