Hankow, Apr. 16.
'The Chinese authorities' have taken extensive precautionary measures 10) prevent disorders on the arrival of 700 Japanese prisoners, who are said to have been captured by the Chinese in the recent Aghting at Taierchwang on the Imperial Canal and who are expected to reach this city today.
The entire district around the railway station where the Japanese prisoners will arrive has been cordoned. off, and the station itself is closely guarded by patrols. These measures} were considered necessary in view of the excitement prevailing among the population here which, it was feared, might give rise to untoward incidents it the prisoners were not strictly Isolated from the excited population.—Trans-Ocean,
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