Tsingtao, Jan. 6.
Much speculation has been aroused here by a Tokyo broadcast stating that the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Otaka, who is now in Japan, is; returning to Tsingtao shortly.
Mr. Otaka is expected to make preliminary survey of the damage suffered by Japanese property at the hands of the Chinese. He is also expected to pave the way for the return of the 23,000 Japanese nationals who evacuated from Shantung as a result of the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Tension Felt Evidence of the tension in which the.populace here are living was provided this morning, when an explosion, the result of an accident, caused' great excitement among the foreign residents in the Titis Hulk district, All is quiet in Tsingtao at present, The Merchaüts Volunteer Corps, a. Chinese organization, has expressed vol in order in" Tsingtao.
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