"According to the latest report received by me," he said, "constables engaged in protecting, the Japanese mill "area were replaced by salt revenue guards, who prepared for the explosions by setting land mines and ooting the mills of valuable spindles, which were transported to the In: terior on the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway, "Atler receiving this news 1 had! tried, to prevent this exchange of guards and the looting, but my efforts. brought no results Associating the fate of the cotton mills with other factories of various kinds having a value of ¥.150,000,000, he said those plants also might have suffered the same destruction.
is stil vivid in my mind that! Japanese residents told me they: would return to Tsingtao as soon as: possible to resume their daily tasks, When I gave the order of evacuation to them on Aug. 27," Mr. Otaka stated. "Now it is impossible for them {0 realize this desire."
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