Tientsin, Jan. 28, Indicative of the unsettled conditions in the neighbourhood of Chin. wangtao, a party of local sportsmen were strongly advised by a high Japanese official to-day to abandon a Shooting trip which they had arranged.
Tt is" learned from" authoritative foreign quarters that a Japanese gunboat has arrived off Chinwangta2, and that a Japanese aeroplane 15, making flights over the " district, following an incident in. which a Japanese officer is reported to have been killed while surveying the region of Chinwangtao. The same quarto-s add that Japanese reprisals have vc~ curred n'a small village in the area.
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