MORE GUARDS POSTED.

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MORE GUARDS POSTED.

CHINESE SITUATION QUIET. Hy Telegraph—Pre?s Association-Copyright Reuter's Telegrams PEKIN, June 16. The Government has issued orders for the special protection of all foreign employees and foreign travellers on railways. It has also instructed the railway police chiefs to provide efficient police for this purpose In a previous order the Ministry instructed foreign employees to remain at their posts and carry on their usual As the result of representations bv the foreign authorities Chinese troops are patrolling the city and special guards have been placed outside the offices and residences of officials of the principal foreign firms. Marshal Chang Tso-lin has dispatched reinforcements to tlio troops at Pekin. liaukow reports that of seven Bolshevik agitators arrested by the Chinese authorities one was shot by Foo-cbow reports that students are urging Chinese in foreign employ to strike, and appealing to the Merchants’ Guild to support the strikers. The Military Governor lias posted guards at the foreign quarter, where all is quiet. I BRITISH WARSHIPS ON MOVE. Australian and N.Z. Cattle Association. LONDON. June 16. It- was announced in the House of Commons that the Foreign Office was making representations to the Admiralty regarding British warships in Chinese waters, consisting of six eruicts, four sloops, twelve submarines, and a number of river craftThe latest Admiralty movements indicate, that the Australian cruiser Brisbane is at Wci-hai-wei.