Peking, May 6.
According to a despatch from Tsinan, Southern troops have with drawn from the commercial area and the fighting was suspended to-day, but the Japanese troops are strictly guarding the env: rons of the commercial area for fear of the ide the district guarded by the Japanese Division escaped looting. by Southern soldiers.
As to the incident in which lawless Chinese soldiers shot Gendarme Tanaka to death, there are many witnesses who actually observed the Drotal acts of the Chinese soldi Mr. Huang Pa, the Foreign ter of the Nationalist Government, admitting the violent nets of Chi-signed the paper the incident—Toho.
This evidently refers to some incident which has not yet been reported in Shanghai Peking, May 6.
The Japanese Consul-General at Toman, telephoning to Tsingtao yesternight, stated, "The Japanese military easualti are 12 killed and 30 wounded. Five bodies of Japanese civilians have been found inside the defended area and nine outside, but many more fare expected to be found ax many parts of the city have yet to be investigated.
"Twenty wounded Japanese civilians have been brought in since the cessation of fighting. The dead fare so mutilated that at present the cannot be identified. Japanese women especially have been terribly. mutilated, stakes being driven through the lower part of their bodies and the latter ripped. Supa exe men have also been sexually mutilated and their ears and noses cut off. far a hundred Japanese houses have been found to have been looted, but there is still much investigation to be made.—Reuter.
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