The Japanese authorities do not appear to have been very proud of this incident for, although it was known all over Peiping on the following day, great pressure was brought to bear on the foreign correspondents here, not to send out any cables about the affair; apparently in the hope that Mr. Poletti would be released within a few hours and the metter pass unnoticed without causing any special stir. Such, however, has not been the case, and up to the time of writing the unfortunate Mr. Poletti remains a prisoner of the guerillas away in the hills, a most unpleasant experience at the best of times, but doubly so in this present wintry weather.
The second incident was, if anything, more spectacular, though it, too, was scarcely mentioned in the local Press. About 6 p.m. on Jan-wary 11, a party of mounted Chinese in uniform, said to have been nearly 500 strong, raided the railway halfway between Peiping and Tientsin, a couple of miles from Langfang, where, again, there was a strong Japanese garrison. They tore up the line for a considerable distance, and
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