Tokyo, Nov, 9.
Owing to the disturbances in Tientsin, the Minister of Wax General Minami, has cancelled hi plans to attend the grand manoeuvres in Kyushu, were he was to Proceed to-morrow.
Official despatches state that the Tients the Chinese city. The Japanese, on the other hand, state that. as the Yapansse concession adjoins the Chinese city many stray bullets fred rom the native quarter penetrated the concession with the result. that a private and a sergeant-major were killed and a Japanese woman seri-
An eye-witness gives the follow: jing account of it to Reuters corre-
"About 11 o'clock last night Chinese plain clothes gunmen. armed with mauser pistols. opened fire the Japanese concession around: the headquarters of the Japanese forces. [Inpanese armoured cars were called ind cleared the streets, firing gunmen, who appeared to consist of several hundred persons, hen retired into the native city but fle and machine-gun fire, with the Joceasional boom of a trench mortar, lasted until the carly hours of this morning. fed. Chinese entering and leaving the Pet to conte and go-anhinder-"motor-cars are
Japanese concession are being sear-felled for arms but otherwise their progress is not being hindered.
The foreign troops, volunteers an? police in the other concessions cor~ tinued to stand by all day, but cept for the area in which the disturbance occurred everything ight following an outbreak of rioting in the Chinese quarter of the city, which is continuous with the Japanese Concession.
A consular despatch flatly: denies the report that the Japanese preci-pirated the trouble Ly firing into the Chinese quarters. Despatches to the War Office state that the trouble was apparently due to a sudden quiet. Business in the concessions! rising" of Chinese. elements hostile Pas ten carried on all day althoura to"
ious firms were handicapped:!
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