According to the Japanese autho ties no action has been taken against these persons. The pamphlets distributed in Hsiangho clearly were not of Chinese origin. Foreigners who tried in vain to get into the pla during one of the first days of 1 trouble saw motorcars with Japanese entering and leaving the town.
Now, according to the authorities on both "si les, the affair is said to have been "settled," though on. the somewhat strange terms—that nobody sto be punished for the outbreak and the obnoxious, yet non-existent, tax is to be abolished. Lest, however, the Chinese authorities should get over-confident at having. got 0 comparatively easy, the Japanese military, at the same time, have Issued "a series of protests' about various questions still unsettled the demilitarized zone. Thus North China is kept in a permanent state of unrest and alarm.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.