Inquiry of the Shanghai Waterworks Company elicits the infor-motion that the Chinese military spokesman is under a misapprehension. The Company has taken and is continuing to take full precautions to see that its premises are not used for observation purposes by unauthorised persons. The tower in question has been under the guard of the American Marines who have seen to it that no access to it is given to in-traders. That vigilance, indeed, gave rise to the incident to which the Chinese m referred but of which he evidently had imperfect information. What happened was that on Sunday a non-British, non-American officer of the Shanghai Volunteer~Gorps with two Japanese friends presented themselves at the tower with the apparent intention of ascending it to view the surrounding country. They were at once challenged by the American -Marines on guard and an officer of the Marines ordered them to leave the at once which they did, The ill-advised visit therefore had no success, the North Station and Chapei in general remained intact, according to a message from the officer commanding the Chinese troops to the spokesman, According to the commander, Chinese defence works are well-nigh impr gnable. The spokesman was asked to tell friends "not to worry about the Chinese troops—that they Will Be there a long. long time yet."
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