Tokyo, Sept. 27.
Karly this morning the Japanese Government sent instructions to Mr. Shigemitsu, the Japanese Minister and through Japanese consuls in the Yangtze Valley to arrange for the withdrawal of all Japanese residents to points where naval protection can be afforded them easily.
The instructions are of a precautionary nature and it is left for has been drafted to the note of Col. that a reply Henry Stimson, American Secretary of State, in which he remarked that information, then available in Washington the extension of military occupation after the initial clash in Mukden "appeared. to lay" a serious responsibility" on Sapan,"—Reuter.
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