Tsingtao—An official telegram from Japan reports the occupation of Chinhualing by the Japanese troops. The German newspaper also its that the Wald: She line has been abandoned and the fortresses are entirely invested. Both reports thus agree. To fight several thousand men cut off from relief and communication with an army of 30,000 or 40,000 strong, the sue cannot be doubted. But the ypanese are apparently not concentrating their attention upon Tsingtao, but upon the whole line of the Kiaochou-Tsinan Railway. The other day when the Japanese occupied the Weihsien station, our commander protested; but they replied "We are ordered to take over control of the railway of Shantung we do not know what neutrality' means." The Japanese Minister still gave the lame explanation that Weihsien station was within the fighting area, then. Now, they have taken Fangteze, and occupied Changtien, the former is several tens of li from Weihsien, but the latter is over 100 li away. Can it be contended again that these places are situated also in the fighting zoner The object of the Japanese in coming to Changtien must be the mines existing along the section between Changtien and Poshan; so they will certainly advance to Poshan in due time. As the Japanese Minister is reported to have demanded the use of the whole railway from Kiaochou to Tsinan, their advance will not stop until they have reached Tsinan.
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