Paris, May 6.
M.A. Wilden, Minister of France in China, has been promoted Pleni gtentiary Minster of the First lat a promotion, promulgated on the morrow of the" signature of the favmistice convention at Shanghai is. being commented as a. well appreciation of the efforts at wilden, in ce-operation with foreign colleagues, for the suc cessful conclusion of the Sino-Jap-after the ing of the Treaty yesterday" before a futile effort was made to incommode the Japanese troops stationed around Woosung, states a report from [Japanese sources.
According to a report from the Headquarters of the 6th Infantry, Brigade of the Japanese Army the the military telegraph wire connect ing Paoshan and Shanghai was twice cut between the hours of felght and nine last night.
'The Japanese garrison immediate threw a cordon round the district, Jand instituted a search for the offenders, All they discovered, how-fever, was 800 rounds of rifle am= munition' and 20 hand grenades. which appeared to have been hastily, jettisoned.
As a result of extensive inquiries, however, the Japanese authorities thave come to the conclusion that the offence was committed by a ind of plain-clothes gunmen, There ig_no. confirmation of, thi yet and the identity of the offenders remains a matter of conjecture. Nevertheless the Japanese garrison are taking added precautionary, o
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