Hankow, Apr. 9.
The Japanese remain in control! of their Concession here.
Three "hundred: sailors, armed with rifles and bayonets fixed, reinforced by 100 members of the Japanese Vol-anteer Company, all armed with wifles, are protecting the Jupanese Coneessi The aren has been handed over to the Japanese naval authorities to administer, and the navy now directs all operations; within the district, civil thorities being subordinate for the} time being Entrance to the Concession by, pass only, which edu be obtained from one of the many bureaux. created at the Consulate These passes are given to all newspaper correspondents, who are and allowed to in-which been accomplished by the mob jeailors, each accompanied by a few /members of the Volunteer Company, jate posted along the entrances to the district, The shops. are closed, few of the buildings are wrecked—windows smashed, doors broken, end looted. streets are deserted except for armed men, and alli civilians carry either "rifles or pistols.
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