Peiping, Sept, 5 The British Embassy "here has made representations to the Japan. ese Embassy concerning the banning from the mails of the British-owned dally, the Peking and Tientsin times" which is published in Tientsin, Ofeiat information on the matier fs lacking, but it 1s assumed that the ban fs due to trenchant criticism of the plan for the Japanese to evi: nate the British and French Con-
This question of the Japanese with: drawing from the Concessions present the subject of discussion between the Japanese and the Amer-jean, Italian and German Consular authorities, and a speedy settlement to the satisfaction of all concerned {s expected.
The intervention: of the American, Italian and German officials thas led foam easing of the tension in ies-
Questioned on the subject by correspondents, Colonel Kawaguchi, Japanese military spokesman, denied that an actual order had bee given to evacuate the British and French concessions.
Merely a warning, he asserted, had been issued regarding the possibility of Japanese residents evacuating. acting on their own initiative, The spokesman said that guerillas were active in the vicinity of Tientsin, and renewed the charge that the Concessions constituted bases for the guorillas—Reuter.
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