A telegram from Ichang reports:—As there are signs of the Chinese troops stationed in Ichang creating disturbances and sacking the city, Japanese residents, for fear of the worst, are making preparations to take refuge near the N.K.K. branch office. The anti-Japanese agitation in Ichang is growing more serious than ever. Sampans are being prevented by the agitators from approaching the Japanese steamers now at anchor in the port. In Wanhsien, Szechuan, a situation similar to that in Ichang is prevailing with the consequence that all the Japanese in the employ of the Mitsui and Mitsubishi Companies are reported to be withdrawing from Wanhsien June 6.
A telegram from Changte reports:—Two seamen of the str. Hsiangkiang Maru now at anchor in Changte have been arrested and led about the streets.by Chinese students, and seven others have been driven into the N. K. K. office, so that they are unable to return to their steamer. As the situation offers a gloomy prospect, the Japanese residents in Changte have aliso decided to withdraw in a body in a few days—Eastern News Agency.
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