Tsingtao, Aug. 18.
Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, Japanese Charge dam aires, and 25 consular and diplomatic oticers who were evacuated from Yangtze ports arrived here at 10.50 o'clock last night, They are expected to proceed either to Japan or to Shanghai—Domei, Situation Ominous, Tsingtao, "Aug. 23. Ominous clouds continued to gather over this peaceful summer resort, as detachments of the Chinese naval landing party lost night ceeupied several of the city's beaches.
This action was interpreted by military observers here as an_attempt to prevent a possible landing of Japanese bluejackets in Tsingtao, With the Chinese "troops slowly tightening a military ring around the city, employees of Japanese cotton mills "in Tsangchow to-day evacuated their homes for the comparative safety of Tsingtao. All Japanese women and children have already eft here "for "Dairen "and japan.
Chinese forces, estimated at} 25,000 regulars, militiamen and Salt] Revenue Guards, were reported today to be building strong defence works along a line linking Laoshan with "the West Kisochao Ba: Domei.
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