Tokyo, Aug. 1.
Asked by a foreign' correspond: to-day whether Japan possessed treaty rights to send troops to Shantung, the spokesman of the Foreign OMce replied "No." But," he -added, there is an agreement between China and Japan for the maintenance of peace and order in Tsingtao, whic China has never fulniled.'—Reute Mason-General "Wen Ying-hsin, Vice-Commander of the Central Gendarmes and Chief of the Revenue Guards Section of the Ministry of Finance, who hurried back to China from America by the Pan-American Airways more than a week ago, on Wednesday resumed his duties in the Shanghai amice of the Ministry.
Food prices in Mentsin, which soared throughout the Sino-Japanese conflict, have been reduced by nearly 80 per cent. as the result of relax: tion of emergency restrictions at the International Bridge. Chinese. with fresh vegetables, fruite and fish pour ed into the concessions from the city: with large supplies which found a ready market. The price of meat is now almost back to normal.
Constante Chang Ching-sion of a search party of Amoy Police was shot dead by @ gunman who fired on the police while being ordered to submit to a search, according to an Amoy mastage dated Sunday. Pursued by the police, the gunman ran Into a house occupied by a Formosan -amed Wu Tien-si, When the Japanese Consular Police arrived. at the Fequest of the Chinese Police 10 search the house, the armed man could not be found, In an effort to avoid recurrent food in the Yellow River, the Water Conservancy Commission bearing the ame hag secured the approval of the National Economic Council for the construction of a $6 million reservoir at Paoehi along the Wei River in north Shensi, an important tributary of the Yellow River. Construction work on the project, it is learned, will be started early next year, while the building of two similar reservoirs the Chee and Lo Rivers, two other tributaries of the Yellow River, also under consideration, Gex, Tsai Ting-kal,: former commander of the 19th Route Army, who became famous as his army defended Chapel and Kiangwan during the Sino-Japanese hostilities in 1932, left Shanghai for Nanking by train on August 11, necompanied by Me. T. 'V. Soong. Gen. Tsai arrived in Shani hat from Hongkong on August 8. His departure for Nanking from here was Kept strictly secret with the result that only afew were present at the station to see him off. After arrival In-Nanking, Gen. 'Tsai called on Gen. Pal 'Tsung-hsi, the Kwangsi leader, Gen, Lung' Yuan, the Yunnan leader, and' Gen. Liu Hsiang, the Szechuen Jeader, who all went to Nanking to confer smith the Generalissimo. " Mr. Soong returned 1o Shanghai by the hight express the same day,
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