'a statement from the spokesman of the Japanese Legation Peking denying the charge that. Japan is interning rolling-stock from the Tsinpu Railway, or interfering wy way with the Railway, Mr. Sun Fo, the Minister of Railways, issued to-day' the following signed statement:
"From the official report of the Tsinpu. Railway to the Ministry dated December 4, the following rolling stock was interned in Tsinanfa: 47 locomotives, 3 pas senger cars and 438 goods wagons in the workshops; 4 Iecomotives 9 service ears and 31 goods wagons in the Locomotive sheds and 2 locomotives, 2 passenger cars and goods wagons appropriated for'
Kisechow-Tsinan Railway. the latest undermentioned report from the same Railway dated December 17, the Japanese military' authorities are taking a very firm tening their grasp on "L have the honour to submit herewith the report of our Locomotive Department, stating that the following d vember 21, 27 and 28, and December 9, the: Chief of the Japanese Railway Reiment together with his soldiers, And the staff officers with the aides-de-camp of the Japanese Third Division, successively went to our Tsinan Locomotive Workshop to inspect and jnvestiyate carefully into the working conditions there, and demanded, that they shall be informed of any now employees'taken into work. They farther inquired into the amount of rolling stock on hand fand the size of the working sonnel, complaining that the amount of work now going on is more than a8 was provided in the Agreement for the Repair of the Yellow River Bridge.
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