But the Japanese are firm. Not} one among all the officials and busines men still remaining has the faintest idea of giving up their Concession. In spite of their unenviable position, they laugh' at the idea of fuming' it over to the makeshift Communist government which exists here, and which is entirely unwilling find unable to offer the slightest Drotection to foraaners, They are aware, as are all other foreigners coolies which attempted to wreck hi that the C. P. cannot Infan fand loot the (Concession. Newspaper the masses here against the foreigner for months, and then expect in the space of aday to gat them pass through to believe that they should respect and make inquiries where they will foreign lives and property.—of Japanese and Chines alike—Eugene Chen is begging the Jap-in order that they may secure all nese to consider the Chinese dicta for an accurate knowledge of people their friends; entreating them the April 3 incident. believe that everything that has has been a. "misunder-Few Chinese Residents that the Chinese people Very few Chinese remain to-day! animosity against the eae te ens, somal win, Re, fgzunene, Connsien sane; and tha peo pin of he Japanese whom they have served however, know that his for years and whom they will not] pleadings are but' the usual pro-Joo Chinese newspapers are agands which the Foreign Minis. working hard in an endeavour to] ter does not believe himself—and circulate the malicious fiction that} they are merely biding their time there are many Chinese in the Conand waiting. When all Japanese cession who are b held there! from the Upper Yangtze have been against their will, The evacuated, and all women and child-state that the servants a1 fron from here have gone—they_ wil to get out and join their country wait for another "misunderstanding"
not allowed to do so by the!
course, is an utter falsehood. The} ets and This, of nese are pleased to call these mob; o "incident," or whatever the Chi-
Servants stay there because' they! fe that life will ron more smoothly where they are than to be mixed roflian mob of Union out of work and sent on Hoting, or doing Chok: spy work! for the Political Bureau, which yuited of most of such labourers strike or out of work who have Malight degree of Sateligence.
The six Japan sailors who had been captured by the rioters, carried off to the Union headquarters and subsequently turned over to the trigon Commander, were rel sed one o'clock yesterday morning. They were brought by the (Chinese authorities to the barrier of the where they] guard, Some of the men were badly raised, but are in good shay considering the experience they have All Japanese in. the outlying districts of Hankow have now been brought into the Japanese Concession, and to-morrow there are fine here all from points, up_river, who have been evacuated and are on their way to Hankow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.