japanese Demarche Will Not Affect Embassy London, June 14.
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Peiping, June 11, With the fulalment by' the Chinese of the majority of the Japanese demands as regard the Peiping and Tientsin areas, the situation would appear temporarily to have eased somewhat. Following the demilltariztation of Tientsin, and other measures there, already detailed, Peiping too Is being cleared of troops. The 2nd and 25th (Nanking) divisions are in process of withdrawal; the troops of the two divisions of Shang Chen's '32nd Army will garrison the line between Tientsin and Peiping and the other stations in the, "immediate vicinity, for the preservation of order, but in this way will be nullified as military unit; the Srd Battalion Special "Gendarmerie (Nanking) already have been sent south; and the Political Training Department of the Peiping Branch Military Council has been closed down, Above all, the Kuomintang Headquarters (Tangpu), both at Tientsin and Felping, have been: closed and their members have hastily departed. Te was against these bodies thet the Japanese were particularly incensed, accusing them of being centres of the Blue Shirt organization and of being. involved in "the Tientsin murders. Whether Blue Shirts or not, the Tien tsin Tangpu had been notorious for many years, leas even for its antic Japanese than for its anti-foreign activities generally, and its violence ington /against the Chinese public, It is fantry regiment maintained at Tien. tsin "voluntarily might be removed outside the "new Japanese area." onder to avert" a Japanese. request for their withdrawal, no removal of the British troops stationed et iene {sin and Peiping under the 'Boxer 'Treaty' is contemplated, 1 is likewise denied thay the British Embassy" at Peiping will be transferred to Nanking as "result of the "Japanese demarche in North China, "Reuter learns that the even. tual transfer of the Embassy to Nan king has been envisaged for some time, but a5 a matter of diplomatic Jeonvenience, having no" connection with present events—Reuier.
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