Aug. 31.
Grave fears are entertained in Chinese circles here that the coming autumn will witness serious developments in the Sino-Japanese _situation, bringing to a climax the events get in motion with the Japanese occupation of Mukden and, affecting not only Manchuria but China Proral Pee, aswell.
The Chinese newspapers here give Jexeat prominence to-day to a report Purporting to expose a scheme by the Japanese military for "aggression in China. is alleged'to be emanating military intelligence circles, ims that the scheme embraces the Seizure of the leading. ports in Chi including Tsingtao, Shanghai, Swatow and Amoy, the object being to isolate the Chinese troops
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