Native dispatches state that the Japanese Consal interviewed the Acting Governor in Soochow after the riot and demanded that the authorities be punished for failing to afford protection and that the rioters be punished according to martial law. He also demanded four or five hundred thousand taels for indemnity for personal injuries and damage to property. The Governor telegraphed to the Viceroy at Naoking, who arrived in Soochow on Sunday afternoon, to take steps to restore order. It is alleged that some 200 Japanese troops have arrived and in the Japanese Con afternoon more friction occurred between the police and some soldiers in the settlements, outside the Chang Men, and a panic was a_ain caused among the residents, Febenary 17
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