Not to be Carried Out Unless'
Absolutely Necessary Tokyo, May 29, Interviewed by the press on the train yesterday, General Baron Tanaka, the Premier, who wes ea his way to Koshigoye to spend the week-end at his villa there, stated] that the reason for the dispatch of troops to Tsingtao was quite plicity stated in the statement issued by the Government. They! moved the troops to Tsingtao, he continued, because sending troops from Manchuria could not be in time on the event of sudden change' at Tainan,—Whether or not the {troops would proceed to Tsinan depended upon the situation there, In short, the Premier explained, the Government cent troops to Tsingtao in order to prepare against repetition of the Nanking outrages. They have taken measures to protect the lives and property of Japanese residents there before it was too late. The Premier emphasized that if all Japanese had to withdraw whenever troubles broke out in the places where they were living, the posi tions which they had build up by toil and labour, would be altogether destroyed. The Government, therefore, desired, from the standpoint of economic development of this country, to take the most careful attitude towards the evacuation of Japanese and to do every thing in its power before being compelled to take that step—Tobo.
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