Japanese Making Place for Extra Guards Peking, May 16. wnking Echoes Defiance Tokyo, May 1
According to despatches reaching the Foreign Office, the members of the Nanking Government have. agreed on the issuance of a mandate for a more resolute pun expedition against Marshal Chang Other official despatches report that looting and plundering Tsinanfu continue. About 100 Chi. nese shops were raided last night. Consequently, the Japanese and Chinese are ce-operating to sup-
The Engagement Bexun Peking, May 16.
The Fengtien troops, which are posted in the neighbourhood Wangtu on the Peking-Hankow line, The Japanese authorities continue to maintain that only one company of troops is being sent to Peking to reinforce the Legation Guard. Nevertheless they are displaying great activity in procuring quarters for several hundred troops in the Inrge compound of the former Austrian Legation, which is ad-cent to the Japanese Legation, ud in strengthening their defences, Japanese soldiers are guarding the Japanese school, partly as the result of an attack made by a mob in Harbin on Japanese children, several of whom were injured.
The British authorities have instructed their nationals to prepare to move into the Legation: Quarter should necessity arise. The Lega-Yon is arranging to accommodate those who cannot make arrange: ments to stay with frien Chinese and foreigners, alike, are sending their valuables' into' the Legation Quarter for safe custody.
The city itself is quiet, to all outward appearance, Larger patrols than usual are to be seen on the streets and nobody is allowed to be out after ten p.m, A proclamation has been issued' which threatens dire penalties to persons caught spreading rumours of defeats of the Fengtien forces or of the departure "of Fengtien officials from the capital, The Pacting-Tsangchow Line The Fengtien forces were still holding a line extending from Pao-Lingfu, on the Peking-Hankow Railway, through Hokienfu to Tsangchow, on the Tientsin-Pukow Raile way, yesterday.—Reuter.
Peking, May 17, It i learned from official sources that at least 3,000 Japanese troops are coming to Tientsin, of which probably 1,000 will come to Peking, bringing the Japanese force here to total of 1,500, A special train is taking Japan~ ese women and children' next Saturday to Tangkai, where they will join a special ship for Dairen.
The buildings of the Japanese Legation have been prepared to re> ceive several hundred refugees from. the city.—Reuter,
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