Demand for Compeneation for Attack by Troops in Tientsin Peking, Dec. 28.
Following the recent attack by Chinese troops on the motor-car of the Italian Chief of Police at Tientsin, while the latter wae on his way back to Tientsin from Peking, the Italian Legation presented a streng protest to the Waichiaopu eu December 19. It has not yet, however, received a reply."
The. communication in question points out the gravity of an attack on unarmed foreigners by Chinese soldiers in the vicinity of the capital itself: and insists on moral and material reparation and on the punishment of the culprits.—Reuter.
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