There was some scare earlier in the year that retreating troops were passing through Chinwangtao, and people wondered if it were safe to go there. The troops, 3,000 of them, did arrive by sea as the wireless messages said, but they arrived at night, and by morning, through the efficiency of the K. M. A., they had all been passed on by: rail into Chinese territory and even the stragglers had all been rounded up by the K. BIN. A, police. There has been adequate protection in Chinwangtuo throughout the summer. A platoon of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment is stationed there, a British, a French ind an Italian gunboat have been in port all the time, and on the rund to Peitaiho is the American camp living under canvas. The Japanese are protecting their wire-loss station. Once a week an armoured train comes down from Tongshan, keeping the line clear to Chinwangtao, while the British gunboat in harbour visits Peitaiho and Shanhaikuan once a week to seo that all is well.
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