APPOINTMENTS, Nanking, Nov. 4.
Tt was announced here to-day that Jesterday the State Council of the Nanking National Governmen: declined to accept the resignation of Mr. Tai En-chai as'. the Chinese}
Minister to Cour.
The State Conne'l also decided thu Mr. Lin Wemtao, the newly] appointed Chinese, Minister to Germany, shall concurrently be the Chi. nese' Minister to Avstria—United Press.
IE NTSIN was thrown into a state of panic by the sound of rifle and machine gun fire an hour or so before midnight last night, when a serious riot broke out, causing the foreign military forees and volunteers to turn out on guard.
Since then there has been a welter of firing by three different sections of people. Chinese gunmen, alleged to have started the trouble, have been firing, troops loyal to Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang have been firing and the Japanese troops in the Japanese concession have al Iso been firing in reply to fire directed towards that concession.
There are many conflicting reports as to where the outbreak began, who began it and as to what was its object, Residents of Tientsin have been keeping indoors all day wondering what on earth has happened, who is fighting who, and why. But the fact emerges that gunmen attacked Chinese police stations and attempted to storm government offices and the railway stations and it is now generally believed that the affair was an attempt to overthrow the local authorities, who are loyal to Marshal Chang Hsueh-i On learning of the outbreak Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, who Peking, immediately despatched an Jarmoured train here and its arrival thas had a good deal to do with the restoration of order, which was Jachieved after nearly twelve hours lof pandemonium.
The foreign troops stood by the borders of the concessions all night long and all day to-day, prepared for any emergency, but apart from the Japanese have not been Serious allegations against the [Japanese are being made by responsible Chinese circles, where it is stated that the mobs who started the affair were armed and led by Japan-jose who, they declare, distributed the weapons to th Sunday. snipers was bad and no hits were registered, is afternoon the native city presented a deserted appearance with the exception of an occasional police patrol. "Business "was at a stand. still, offices, shops, schools and. government' bureaux being closed, and nobody, even officials, were; allowed to leave their houses, Chinese. were observed feverishly} Alling large quantities of so in order to strengthen their defer at strategic points, for they app: ently anticipated further disturlances.
'The Japanese concession to-day] was also very quiet, 'The streets are are patrolling the streets. - Machine-deserted and troops and' volunteers guns are placed at strategic points and all exits of the concessions guarded and barricaded, but forelgnre the service was resumed "this ete were Fe at in during the day. One report stated that the Japanese were shelling the [Chinese city and barracks and that 40 shells had been fired, of which had landed in the ex-Austrian ni, two in the river and the the Chinese area, These reports however were later iseredited in official foreign despatches from Tientsin. wan of the Japanese lay emphatically denied gated the He states that purely a Chinese internal id that the Japanese troop: like those of the other powers, wet fealled out and lined the border of their concession while pandemonium reigned in the native city. spokesman denied the report that the Japanese had shelled the city, saying, "The Japanese army in 'Tientsin is assuming a strictly neu tral attitude and is not interfering in the riot, which is an internal quarrel in' Chinese tervitory."—Reuter.
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