JAPANESE, A Japanese Report of Dispute at Chinwangtao Tientsin, June 23.
Despite the fact that the Ohinwangtao station, where the General Headquarters of the Chihli troops is now situated, is under the jurisdiction of the Japanese garrison according to the Treaty concluded in 1901 in connexion with the Boxer trouble, the Chihli troops recently prohibited Japanese soldiers from entering the platform of the station.
Th consequence, the Commandant of the Japanese garrison there lost no time in lodging a protest with the Chihli_ troops, who, however, not only failed to listen to the protest but on June 22, when some Japanese soldiers on duty entered the platform to watch the arrival and departure of trains, assaulted tha Japanese soldiers. More than this, on the afternoon of June 22 the Chihli troops did violence to Japanese sentries at the station, and destroyed Japanese military telegraph wires between Shanhaikuan and Chinwangtao. They, besides, prevented the Japanese gar-risen from repairing damaged parts of the telegraph wires. Some of them went so far as to cut repaired telegraph wires in the presence of Japanese soldiers.
It is reported that Japan has no alternative but to reinforce the garrison with the object of discharging her responsibility arising from the Treaty in question.—Eastern News Agency.
Tue "Kobe Herald" says the engagement is announced of Mr. F. W. Zwagers, agent of the Java-China-Japan Lijn, to Miss Anna Tripler, of the Kobe Agency of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (and for some years a resident of Yokohama). while the foreign passenger fare to Chungking is to remain at $135.
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