Despatch of Troops Not Un-
Sgiendly. Act but One Necessary Japan's Memorandum replying to the protest filed by the Chinese Government with Japan against the despatch of Japanese troops to Shantang was handed to Dr. Wellington Koo, the Premier and Foreign Minister, to-day.
After stating that the Japanese Government is daly in receipt of the communication dated June 1, forwarded by the Foreign Minister Dr, Wellington Koo, the memo:
m states in the main as "The civil war in China has of ate become mare serious. It is to be greatly regretted that; spite of declarations frequently made by the Chinese authorities concerned in the past, the actual state of affairs in China is that the rights of foreigners, the protection of their lives and property, ete,, are encroached upon and the necessary. protection, to which foreigners are entitled by Treaty provisions and International Law, cannot be fully expected from the Chinese auth orities, "For instance, the lives and pro perty of those Japanese, resident in Nankiny, Hankow, and elsewhere, Were recently seriously menaced, To make the matter worse, even the national prestige of Japan was dised. At this juncture when civil war is gradually spreading to north China, nobody can say that the recurrence of such unhappy. incidents as aforesaid is absolutely.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.