Tsinanfu, Sept, 28.
The Japanese have entered the leased territory of Kiaochou. Skirmishing of the outposts has taken place in several places. Japanese troops have been landed in the bay of Wangkochuang from twenty-one steamers and have advanced viii Wangko and the Hotung Pass.
A German detachment of some forty men opposed several hun dreds of Japanese for an hour and then withdrew without any losses, while the Japanese sustained loss, The Japanese have entered the valley of the Litsun river through the Laoshan.
In the meantime Japanese cavalry appeared near Liuting and Wali on the 18th instant, but were repulsed by the German outposts with loss, It was on thin occasion that Lieutenant Baron Riedesel was killed. Owing to the arrival of Japanese reinforcements the German outposts were also withdrawn on this side to the Litsun line during the next few days.
The Japanese on September 26 ocoupied a line extending from Taangkow, on the Bay of Kiaochou, vid Litsun, to Shatsekow, on the Bay of Shatsekow beyond the Kaiserstuhl. The Japanese have suffered heavy losses while advancing one man has been seriously and eight have been slightly wounded on the German side.
The Germans never intended to hold the more remote mountains. Even the line Tsankow-Shateckow would have been too extended for the German forces available, The first fortified defence positions are in the neighbourhood of Tsingtao. The sanitary condition of Tsingtao in good; the general attitude of the men is splendid.
Peking, Sept. 28.
The " Peking Gagette" protests against the occupation of Weihsien railway station by the Japanese, and says that this step seriously menaces the good relations of China and Japan. It states that the President's hand may be forced by the unreasonable demands of the Japanese authorities to make Tsinanfu the base of military action.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.