Tientsin Property Seized by Nippon Army Tientsin, Oct. 25, British consular authorities here to-day fled" a protest with the Consulate-General against seizure by the Nipponese military authorities of a waterfront lot at 'Tangku, said to be owned by Britons, This' claim is contested by the Japanese Army, which claims ownership of the area by virtue of conquest during the Boxer rebellion in"1900, Major G. A. Herbert, HM. Superintendent Consul, who went to Tangku to investigate the case, says hho was ejected from the property the Japanese soldiers who are con structing a refrigeration plant "on the lot According to British records, Mr.
P. Morling, who Is now in'England, and Mr. R.A. Whitamore, also a Briton, acquired title deeds to the land ili 1902—Rengo.
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