Tientsin, June 5.
After a week's suspension, brought Jabout by unsettled conditions Sinkiang, bus communications to that province from Suiyuan were resumed tonday.
The bus line halted operations following the outbreak of a minor jelash between "the Chinese troops lurider Gen. Sheng Shih-tsai, pacitlea~ tion commissioner, and Mohammedan {forces under the garrison commander of Mami.
'The trouble, however, was prompt-settled by' a conference among the leaders of the contending forees. ese consul in Tehang.
The news of the arrest of Mr. Sato and his Chinese assistant on June 1 reached the Japanese Embassy by 2 eifeultous route, said the journal. 'A Chinese boatman, who witnessed the arrest, immediately proceeded to Tehang and reported the incident to a Japanese resident there. The lat ter informed Mr. Tanaka, who communicated the matter to' Hankow, From Hankow, the report was tele phoned to the local branch of the Bank of Formosa, which conveyed the information to the Japanese Emassy.
"Accompanied by a Chinese assistant, Mr, Sato has bees engaged in a geological survey of western Hupeh for the past five weeks. He was due fo return here late this month.
in arresting the Japanese geologist the police in Patung ignored his sate conduct, issued by the Chinese authorities, said the daily. Mr. Sato has been working with the local Japanese Science Institute since 1932.
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