Peking, Oct. 1.
The "Peking Gazette" reports that Chinese troops blew up a bridge of the Shantung Railway nine kilometres west of Weihsien on September 29.
The " Peking Jih-pao" reports that, owing to the financial diffculties of the Government, the Vice-Minister of Finance has gone to Tientain to transfer a large amount from the Salt Revenue to Peking.
Lin Kuan-hsiung, Minister of the Navy, has asked the Government to agree to the concentration of the Chinese naval forces for the purpose of practice.
The German Government has, in accordance with the steps taken by the German Legation at Peking, lodged a protest with the Chinese Minister to Berlin against China tolerating the violation of her neutrality by the Japanese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.