Tientsin, Sept. 24.
Tension existing between French and' Japanese residents in Tientsin was heightened last night as French "authorities closed the Concession gates against angry Japanese who bad attended a mass meeting in Yamato Park following an incident on the Intergational Bridge involving Japanese soldiers and French Municipal Police.
The dispute occurred when a Japanese military lorry was momentarily delayed to prevent a traffic jam. The occupants of the lorry are alleged to have engaged in a fracas with a Chinese member of the French Police who was assisted by foreign passers by. A Subsequently, Japanese reservists assumed a leading part in an indig" motion meeting at the park in the Japanese Concession, when the French were hotly denounced, British and French authorities, who Hat been expecting some incident since the expiration of the warning to Japanese residents to withdraw from their areas, forthwith closed the iron gates at their boundaries and closely examined all persons entering.
Later in the evening groups of Japanese, stirred up by the oratory at the meeting, threatened to break the gates, and the situation became dangerous on two occasions.
Finally, however, the Japanese retired to their homes and the rcmainder of the night was quiet.—Reuter.
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