With these developments in view: the commander of the Japanese garrison in Manchuria issued warning to both opposing forces calling their attention to the nature and score of duty incumbent upon the Jay The deficiency in strength of the garrison, due to the departure of the discharged soldiers in the middle of November, was originally to be supplemented in January, accon!- ing 0 the annual programme. Any prior dispatch of men in replace ment wag to be withheld until the last moment of absolute neces:
An entirely new situation, however, presented itself when reports. fr Manchuria came successively to hand, from the night of December 14 to the next morning, confirming the arrival of a detachment General Kuo's army at the opposite bank. Tt was then necessary seriously to consider the possibility fof an impending conflict between the respective forces of Marshal Chang Tso-lin and General Kuo-Sung-lin in the open port of Yingkow. Our garrison had now to keep special watch over a zone extending. from Yingkow in the south to Tientsin in the north,
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