Refuges for Nationals in Case of Emergency Tsingtao, July 19.
Eight refuges, where Japanese dents will be rushed in case of emergency. were designated by the Japanese Resi Corporation to-denis day intima, preparations were also completed, to house 700 Japanese women amd children from Tsinan.
More than 300 refugees from Tsinan and points along the Kioatsi railway have already arrived here.
Uneasiness among local Japanese increased to-day with reports that Salt Revenue Guards stationed in Shantung were assuming an increasingly anti-Japanese attitude.
The attention of Gen. Shen Hung-lich mayor of Tsingtao, was drawn development by Mr. Shojiro Japanese Consul-General, in an interview yesterday.
Admiral Shen. it was learned on good authority, said he was power less to take any action regarding the Salt Revenue Guards because the received their orders from the mistry of Finance.
The Chinese official however, is understood to have assured Mr Ohta all steps to maintain peace and order in Tsingtao would be taken.—Dome
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