For some three days a state of tension has ruled here and the gates have been carefully guarded and something looking like guns mounted on the walls, An attempt was made hastily to repair a weak place or two in the walls, On Monday, April 30, a detachment of Liu Tzeu's troops paid us a visit, One soldier came right into the hospital premises and ran merrily round the doctor's garden coming in smiling fat the front door. He was a little surprised when he found two foreigners in the dining room. He bowed politely and requested the use of a pan to heat his rice in. We saw nothing very inconsistent with the Three People's Principles fu granting his request and very soon the hospital kitchen fire was in use for quite a group of these visitors.
Tsingtao, May 18.
Yesterday the enrive Japanese population of Tsingtao shut up their shops and other business and went on holiday, for which there was a double ranson, The first was the arrival from Jupan of part of the Nagoya division and the second was in memory of the Japanese soldiers who lost their lives an Tsinan, 'The arvivinge troops were not in great force, some 400 bein in the parade that made its way out to the soldiers' monument, There is due _anoth ent to-day. and another again to-marr The bodies of the dead soldiers from Tsinan had been cremated and deposited in small urns. Thes were placed in rows in one of the steamer's cabins and were open worship and floral offerings, not learn the exact mumber General confidence has: ly restored during this week. one denies that the Japanese military men went with a full dete mination to finish up their job the shortest time and gave a very short time for vg and the evacuation of i But having: done their job thoroughly they showed a reasonable spirit and have permitted the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Tsinan to manage the city, They declare that they are not desirous of managing the domestic affairs of the Chinese but will squelch with a firm hand any anti-Japanese agitation, Many of our Chinese friends do not like to admit it, but this is the kind of government they want all over China, though they hate to get it at Japanese hands, In the old Manchu days they had very much the same thing. They accept~ ed. the officials sent down from Peking with more or less inditferfence, but there were certain well defined Himits be; the officials did not The rise of the Tuchuns and the complete subordination military rule swept same time the powers and privileges of the gentry and Chamber of Ci By four o'clock next morning the ole Jot had left for Weihsien.
From such reports og it has been Possible to obtain it seems that where Chambers of Commerce and village elders and gentry have been wise enough to offer such things hot water, cigarettes, [pan chien (road money), (Northern) have not any looting. Some of them had
to feel some human sympathy for bare feet, and it was impossible not them in their difficulties.
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