JAPANESE ACTION
TROOPS TO TSINOTAO
PRIME MINISTER EXPLAINS
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, 30th May. The Japanese Government has ordered two battalions with special engineering and wireless detachments to Tsingtao, the port of Shantung, wh«?t, they are due to-mor-row. Barsn Tanoka, Prime Minister, in a statement handed to the foreign representatives in Japan, recalls the sufferings of the Japanese at Hankow and Nanking through the failure of the
Chines* authori-MAJQR-QEN. DUNCAN. **•■. to Kive P™" +t, a- . tection, and says self-defence and will be withdrawn as residents in the region ceases. Chinese in Shanghai are holding denoting there two yeara ago. The Chinese authorities have warned the demonstrators no t to attempt to enter the International Settlement. During the last few weeks the tenre°Led. gh?i hM VMy conside^ly The Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron has decided to discontinue the convoying of merchant ships as firine on steamers on the Yangtse River has ll\^T- ci- D/ 8trov««, however, will be held in readiness to deal with any recurrences of firing. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 9
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167JAPANESE ACTION Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 9
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