Show ALL NIPPONESE LAND FORCES TO lEAVE SHANGHAI Y Withdrawal Means Virtual 1 Return to Status Before Before Be- Be 1 fore Fighting w- w e 4 5 Br BY United Press reus J t TOKIO May 11 All ll-All All Japanese land 3 forces at Shanghai 1 will be brought home within a a n m month nth according to on an official announcement today oda ph- ph Under terms of or the peace pact signed at Shanghai Japan agreed to withdraw her troops from the Shanghai Shang Shang- hai area into the international settle settlement ment and to areas A spokesman said ald the cabinet had decided to make withdrawal unconditional unconditional but also revealed that the war ministry was determined to push on to if the if-the the troops were sent back to China and that some of the troops from Shanghai had been sent to Manchuria The withdrawal means virtual return return re re- turn to the status before the Shanghai fighting lighting and that Japan expects the great powers to en enforce or e the terms of the Shanghai armistice Premier Inukai will visit Emperor Hirohito later today to obtain om- om cial dial sanction for the withdrawal The spokesman said the Fourteenth I division was arriving in Manchuria and that no withdrawals were contemplated contemplated con con- there Th The division formerly for for- formerly merly was at Shanghai The Th withdrawal of Shanghai forces will save the government yen n a year and will eliminate suspicions suspicions that Japan sought special privileges privileges leges at Shanghai the spokesman said Minister of War General Sadao Araki told the thc cabinet that the army alone would decide whether it was necessary to send troops back to Shanghai He asked that Minister of Finance Takahashi keep separate appropriations for the Shanghai forces The spokesman said no change e in Japanese policy is contemplated and that the thc governments government's position would continue to be based on the Japanese ultimatum as accepted by the mayor of Shanghai on on January Januar 28 26 But he added that Japan would probably be slower er next time if it it became necessary to send more troops to China |