As the senior commander of the foreign troops in Tientsin, Lieut General R, Koitzumi has sent a communication to Generals Li Ching-Yin and Kuo Sung-ling and the Commanders of the Ist and 2nd Kuomin chun Armies requesting them notify their troops and secure the effective observance of the following provisions of the Boxer Protocol:
(1). Chinese troops are forbidden to approach or to remain within 20] 1i of the place where the international troops are stationed at Tientsin.
(2). When the Peking-Tientsi region is affected by hostilities the] movement of aircraft and bombing machines within 20 li of the international troops is evidently contrary] to the spirit of the Protocol, present hostilities they feel con strained again to insist on free and safe communication by rail and road! being restored without further delay] between Peking and the sea in cordance with "Article IX of the Protocol of 1911. They therefore, urge that all the necessary measures taken at once in Peking to the effect that the so-called Internation-_ al Train may resume its service forthwith in order that foreigners pursuing peaceful neutral occupations may do so without hindrance and that the foreign Legations and nationals may again receive and send diplomatic couriers. Postal communications have now already been interrupted ten days.
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