Pentsin, May 31.
Mystery envelops the events Friday night on the Tientsin-Tanget oilway a5 the result of a report the "latest of. several contradictory Borlos—suggesting "that two exploe ions, not one, occurred within the Spaed of a fow hour Japanese troop trains arrived ental from 'Tangle on Friday evening the firs steaming into. the andthe second with 700 "men aboard, at. 020. Second of these trains, the Japenese allege, was bombed afew miles cast of Mentsin, but whether the tack vas. mined' of an explosive. missile thrown Is not stated "A party "of 30 Japanese military asked for the use of a trolley at 10.15 Dims, but, on this request being. re-Fred, boarded "a special. train" and {old the Station "authorities they wished to proceed to Hainho to inspect Who line. "They lett at 1113 pam.
Apparently they did not informs the railway. aithoriles of the alleged bombing of the 820 troop train, Had they done #0, the authorities would probably not have allowed the mid-ight, Mukden express, which was Drought to.a halt by a vigilant patrol man justin time to avert disaster, 'Chinese repens, however, roter only. to an explosion in the vicinity 'Bridge' No. 14 at. midnight, and Siate that, te Mukden express Hopped shortly atter' this Chinese Not Aware further doment of mystery Is provided by.a statement that a goods {rain from Tangku reached Tientsin inthe Interval between the arrival of the 820 troop train and the Geparture of the Mukden express. This would suggest that, if the 8.20 troop train was bombed, the track was not, damaged "The Chinese oilway authorities assert that they were not aware of the bombing of the 820 train until Japanese military oMeials visited the Tientsin Best Station the (followin morning to inspect the waggon alleged to have been bombed.
The Keishin "Nich! Nichi" declares that "the bombing of troop trains exposes a plot against the Japanese Army." The situation, it says, is how worse than it was at the time fof the Boxers. The actions of the Sludents. the journal continues, threa~ {en disastrous. consequences.
The Chinese yuards placed around Chinese schools here following the Fecent demonstrations wera increased to-day, the anniversary ut the Tangleu Truce—Reuter, 1000 Troops In Peiping Peiping, May 29.
'The Japanese Military Attache here, Major Imal, states that when the movements are complete, there will be 1,000 Japanese troops' in the Peiping area, which compares with the average of 300.men for some years past, Military barracks are at present being built at Fengtai, at the railway. Junction south of Peiping, When this has been completed, the present force of Japanese troops at Tungchow, capital of the East Hope! "autonomous" regime, will, It is pected, be transferred there, Major Ima{ denied that barracks were being built at Tungchow and Changsintien, He also denied that Japanese troops passed through Pel-ping to-day on their way to Tungchow, capital of the East Hopel Autonomous State. They travelled in two trains, 130 in the first and $00 the second. They will, it is understood, be quartered at Tungchow till the new barracks at Fengtai, near Peiping, are comploted—Reuter.
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