Sinew the 13th instant domi lary searches have been proceeding at Tsingtao, which have res:'ted in the arrest of 144 Germans, who, it is stated, are proved to have participat.d in the recent hostili-its, but, after the surrender of the fortress, were allowed to stay in the city on the plea that they were non-combatants, says the "Anahi." Ninety-one of these have been despatched to Japan as. soners of war on board the Miyagi Maru.
A Tsinan despatch to the same paper states that many Germans are arriving there from Tsingtao, having been thrown into a state of panic by the domiciliary searches.
One of the Japanese officers who returned from Tsingtao, is quoted by the "Asahi'" as stating that the Germans at Tsingtao were treated with excessive civility by the Japanese military authorities after the capitulation. A considerable number of young Germans were to be seen walking about the streets in civilian dress, they swarmed in the hotels, they drank beer and played cards, and engaged in other minently peneeful pursuits. The Japanese said little but thought a lot. However. they allowed those who professed to br civilians to reopen their offices and continue their businesses.
The Japanese military authorities at Tsingtao, says the "Japan Chronicle", appear to have formed strong suspicions that—various properties which were claimed as private, and were on that account spected, were really Government property all the time. If the suspicious prove to be well grounded they will indicate an extremely shortsighted policy on the part of ths lat Tsingtao military authori-only will they have fail-"toon their victors on the -|conrteoux terms offered, but they have conditions very vous for the real non.combat-ud the genuine owners of private property in Tsingtao.
Those German residents at Tsingtao who undertook military ser-says an officer in the Prison-Bureau, Tokio. Asahi," were all made prisoners of war. Some of Vttean quickly cast off their mili-
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