Poking, Mar. 2. several serious the hospitals, fires—in one of which 30 houses were burned to the the press-eang has! tthe trouble did not originate in aeon:
Jearned from very reliable the age cetitble ict of Northerners and National Of hostilities in the vicinity of] #t# 88 such, but. simply between chefoo fs due to negotiations be. the incoming regime and General Liu Chenniegs 228) the old wigime who vere with the loss of their livelihood, threatened those of
Tig reliably stated that Generat the whole situation has been Liu Chen-nien ached for $500,000 upon and engineered by adherents to turn over and that Chang Chung-of General Chang Chung-chang to chang offered $100,000, after which help him and 4o disable the National-a five-day truce was declared for ists, so that it is now almost frank. negotiations, the result of which, ly a struggle between Chang Chung however, lias not yet transpired, chang and the Nationalists, bote Reuter. using bandit and criminal elements as allies, Residents do not as yet Chang's Opportunity see any possibility of an end to the Peking, Mar. 1, struggle, even in the event of the Messayes from dependable sources defeat of Chang Chun-chang else. in Chinchowfu (on the Shantune Railway, almost exactly half-way atween Tsingtao and Tsinan) give an indication of the disturbed con-
The Taxation Question Chefoo, Mar. 5.
Gitions prevailing in the province.
It appears that shortly after the Tsinan incident last May and the arrival of Japanese forces to safeguard lives and property along the Jine of the Railway, the Civil Maigistrate of the City withdrew from the ity. itself and established his! yamen outside the ity, thus virtually losing any influence and avthority he had; which was not very great as he was 2 new appointee, somewhat young, and not known in fom the time of his withdrawal intil October there was constant 'The United States Council, Mr. [Leroy Weber, in an interview with General Liu Chen-nien, who.commands the garrison in' the Chefoo area, received renewed assurances Hfor the safety of foreign lives and property. General Liu Chen-nien expressed the opinion that there would be, no fighting in the next Hfew days." Meanwhile, the situation here remains quiet.
'The United States Consul, as doyen of the Consular Body," has protested strongly against the proposed reintroduction of the Goods' Tax, which was abolished when the
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