With their safety guaranteed by Herr Theodore Antoschowitz, who has been connected with the Tsingtao police since the days of the German occupation, which ended in 1914, 130 of the Chinese police who deserted their posts yesterday have returned and are now helping to extinguish the fire in a Japanese silk mill.
The mill was one of the few new Japanese properties set on fire by the Chinese yesterday.
Meanwhile, the "Vigilantes." as the newly-formed foreign volunteers corp has been nicknamed, are patrolling the streets in motor-cars in an attempt to maintain order. They are only armed with batons.
A. R. Hogg. a Briton, is in of the volunteers. who conties. They have done valuable work since their formation.
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