Imposing Array of Thirty War Vessels Tsingtad, Mar, 31.
The Japanese First Squadron has: Jarrived at Tsingtao, the cruisers! Akubuma, Tame and Kuni on Tuesday and the remainder on Wednes-Jday. The Squadron consists of 30]
April 4.
The Japanese First Squadron, with the exception of the cruisers Yura and Kinu, left this afternoon for Chefoo.
The destroyers 10, 12 and 18, belonging to the Sixteenth Flotilla, Reuter. po left. for Shanghai thie, morning"
Although the ratepayers of the! ex-British Concession (now the Special Administrative District No. 8) voted yesterday to increase 1927 police expense budget Tls. 111,000 over the 1926 figure in compliance with the demand of the Chinese, there is no sign of adequate} police protection.
On Monday a (Chinese employee vas dragged from the British-. American 'Tobacco Company's premises and arrested by the union. 'To-day another was dragged away. from the B.A.T. office and the union' threaten to take six more, This morning a hundred cases of the Company's products value? at $20, 000 were stolen by pickets and strikers from a lighter alongside Butterfield and Swire's hulk and done away with. Police who were en the scene made no attempt t0 prevent the theft. On the contrary] they assisted the strikers to kidnap one B.A.T. employee.—Reuter.
Note: The foregoing is a copy Reuter press telegram which was suppressed by the Hankow censors.
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