Taking one consideration with another the lot of the Chinese police at Tientsin is not a happy one since the Japanese troop. manazuvres started. The Japanese military authorities approached the police with the request that some hundreds rooms in houses adjacent to the manceuvres area should be vacated owing to army needs, and the result was an enforced exodus of tenants to other parts of the city after a promise of a small sum per room Vacated. According to newspaper reports, the police had to extend their offices {o mich more domestic tasks the request of the Japanese army authorities, In addition' to carrying. cut their proper police functions, the role of universal providers has been thrust on the force and t> accommodate the troops the police were Fequested to provide ample supplies of water, 120 cauldions and chopping cards for food preparation purposes, 10,000 catties of hay and a quantity fof candles, All these requests are Feported to have been met but there was some demur when the police were asked to reerull several score of coolies to assist in kitchen preparations, The Chinese asked for 65 cents a day as the local labour rate but the Japanese replied with offer of 45 cents a day, which they €eclared was the usual rate paid for Chinese employed at the Halkaunese barracks. Matters appear to have
now in progress, but actions like these been setited and the sham battle. is place the police in a difficult and Somewhat humiliating position. Their job is dimeult enough attempting to Prevent disturbing incidents which might arouse Japanese ire without having fo serve the oMfce of commissariat,
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