Tsingtao, Jan, 20, Four thousand ex-soldiers from Shanghai arrived here to-day on board the steamer Talm They were immediately loaded into trains that were standing wait~ ing for them and sent off to Tsinanfu. From there they will disperse to their homes.
They were given two dollars each and food here, Their behaviour was excellent. Six British and 60 Sikh police who accompanied them ex-Perienced not the slightest trouble, These police are returning Shanghai to-night, Two foreign ships carrying more repatriated soldiers belonging to this province are expected to-
Two Japanese destroyers arrived here at noon to-day from Shanghai but no untoward occurrence is anti cipated here. However, the return of thousands of ex-soldiers is now viewed as a grave matter for no employment awaits them and: it is feared that many of them will turn bandits.—Reuter's Pacific Service, More Men Sent Away from Shanghai Another shipload of 800 soldiers matched by the French authorities on Wednesday from tha Avenue Haig camp on board the str. Asahi Maru IT, These were conveyed "in motor lorries between the hours of 2 p.m. and 5 pam. and left the French Bund in the evening.
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