Peking, Jan. 31.
Dr. Schurman, the American Minister, recently again called on the Premier with reference to the Coltman case, after which the Premier summoned Messrs. Chiang Hua-peng and Shih Chow-chang, who were formally delegated to} Kalgan to investigate the case.
Numerous conflicting rumours are warrant regarding the case, which Americans and other foreigners here have in no way forgotten, but nothing official can at present be given out.—Reuter.
Somewhat of a sensation has been created in Japan by the discovery that bank notes are being used as a means of Bolshevik propaganda. It has been found that en notes, especially those of small denomination, mottoes and sentences have been written expressing revolutionary sentiments, and authorities are now trying to trace the source from which these have, emanated. Already one man has been arrested for passing a note bearing one of the inscriptions in question.
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