A couple of days ago, the President of the Ministry of the Interior, Prince Ssu, communicated with the to the effect that, on the some Japanese soldiers of the Japanese Legation Guards suddenly entered the house of a Chinese resident in the Pei-hin Street in the Toner city of Peking and arrested a Japanese subject in Chinese dress without notifying the Commissioner of the Chinese police beforehand. Such action, it is pointed out, is contrary to the existing Treaties between China and Japan, and H. Yuan Shih-kai has been requested to demand an explanation from the Japanere Charge d'Affaires about it. The native Papers say that the arrested man was a degraded Japanese captain wanted by the Japanese Goverment for embezzling a large sum of Government money.
He had disguised himeelf as Chinese by putting on Chinese dress and rqnene and came to Peking some time ago in the hope of evading the law of his own country. The military police in Peking, however, detected the strange movements of this disguised Chinese and watched him for several weeks before they pottnced upon him. Wheo the Japanese soldiers entered his house to arrest him the ex-captain offered stout resistance, bat he was soon overpowered and after receiving s wound in the left leg from a revolver ballet the prisoner was taken to the Japanese Legation by the Japanese soldiers, without the knowledge of the Chinese thorities. Tt is believed that the Tapanese Charge d'Affaires will bare
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