Tokyo, July 8.
The Japanese Treasury has approved the expenditure of a further 700,000 in connexion with the additional 2,000. troops Japan is despatching to Tsingtao from Dairen, This money formally was. handed over to the authorities terday, When the first 2,000 Japanese troops were sent to China, sum of Y, 650,000 was appro printed. The additional Y. 50,000 for the second despatch of troops to Shantung will be utilized wards such comforts and facilities necessary to cope with the summer, heat of dry Shantung.
The Navy Department has decided not to send any more war vessels to North China for the present.
is understood that Japan has seven ships in the Shantung region at present, anchored off Tsingtao, These consist of three cruisers and four destroyers. Should the land forces which Japan has in Shantung be unable to cope with any sudden development there, the naval commander has been instructed to lose no time in landing. mi Since the main object of Japan in dose patching troops to Shantung is to protect the lives and property of Japanese nationals there, the pre-mut land forces and the—small squadron of war-vessels is thought to be ample. If, however, matters take ona sudden turn for the worse, which is quite possible with the treachery and swapping horses for which Chinese civil warfare 3s notorious, instructions have been issued by the Navy Dopartment to the Kure Naval Station to Jose not a moment's time in der patching further ships to The rumours that Japan is seeking to regain a preponderant. influence in Shanghai, reports to which, effect have been reaching this country, are dismissed by responsible sources here as-ridiculous, These it In generally believed, emanated from Russian Japan has given her offcial pledge, as a country and a nation, that, as soon as the to her' nationals and thely property: disappears, she immediately will recall every man al of prejudice to blind their sight Japan's Stake in Shantung When one realizes the stake Japan has in Shantung, one can sympathize with try has taken to people there, seems to be that Japan did not. The wonder Jand troops earlier. The latest figures compiled by the Foreign Office show that there are 16,000 Japanese in Shantung, which now has become the cockpit of warring Chinese factions. The money the Japanes have sunk in this territory is put) at Y. 285,000,000 and this is thought to err on the side of conservatism, and around Tsingtao alone, there are sai big and small, worth about Y, 225, 000,000, while along the Tsingtao-'Tainan Railway, there are at least Cotton Spinning Ca,, the Dai" Nipgon Cotton Spinning Ca, the Nisshin Cotton Spinning Ca., the Kanegafuchi Spinning Ca, and the Shanghai Silk Cotton Spinning Ca. In the interior of the country, the Japa factories mostly are flour. malls, match factories and canneries. Tt la obvious, then, that Japan's stake a large' one and cannot be abandoned'to the vagaries of rival Chic reso soldiery.
The Japanese population is Shantung is distributed thas:—Tsingtao, 10,947; Tsinan, 1,400; Tsangkou, 1,041; Ssufang, 829; Taitungehin, p: 459, and a further few hundreds in other interior cities.
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