The Archive · 1924

Japanese Protest Against Chihli

Soldiers Insulted and Injured at Shanhaikuan: Demand for Speedy Settlement Peking, Nov. 19.

Mr. Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister, acting on instructions from the "Tokyo Government, this afternoon ealled_ on Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at th Waichiaopu and officially fled a strong protest in connexion the insult, violence and injury inflicted by some of the Chihli troops on Japanese soldiers in the districts of Shanhaikuan, Chinwangtao_and Luanchow. The Japanese Minister further demanded from the Foreign Minister a speedy settlement of the case—Eastern News Agency.

ApsimaL Tu Shih-kuei, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, who is at present in Nanking, has telegraphed to Peking declining to accept. the post of Minister of ay in the present Bagtern Times," 5

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