Tientsin, July 29.
Lieut-Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, com mander of the Japanese forces in North China, to-day invoked the terms of an appendix to the Boxer Protocol in rejecting a protest of the Consular Body against the aerial bombing of Chinese areas by Japanese military craft The Japanese reply to the protest cited the identic note served by the allies in the Boxer Rebellion day: upon the Chinese authorities in connection with the return to China of the administration of Tientsin. This itch" inst bullets.
Patriotic efforts in Japan se belts, each one of which has a stitches. communication forbade the entry of Chinese troops into an area within a two-mile radius of Tientsin, In addition, Lieut-Gen. Katsuki was understood to have pointed on: that more than 10,000 Japanese well as a much larger number of Chinese resided in the Japanese Con-
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