"Had this happened", the official declared, "ihe lives and property of 2,000 Japanese residents in Peiping and of other thousands in Tientsin would have been exposed to a grave danger.
"And if events of such a nature do take place, the Japanese nation will be compelled to fight China in earnest, thus affecting the peace of the Far East.
"It is, therefore, absolutely necessary to dispatch an adequate force to North China to prevent an aggravation of the incident."
The officials expressed their displeasure with the "fables" broadcast "almost daily" by the Central Broadcasting Station in Nanking in an effort "to distort Japan's actions and to gain foreign sympathy The officials were especially incensed by the Chinese charges that Japan desires to found "a second Manchoukuo in North China" ana that the North Ching truce was arranged to enable the Japanese Gar-risen in Tientsin to receive reinforce-been recognized by local Chinese au- ments, thorities The right to hold man-œuvres, the official said, is also specifically recognized in the accord the Conditions for The Dissolution of DOMEI CHINESE EDITOR on
Provisional Government of Tientsin,
RELEASED
signed on July 15, 1902.
The agree-5 ment said: Hankow, July 16.
"After the dissolution of the Tien-Mr. Tsao Sung-ping, 39, editor of tsin Provisional Government, foreign Domei's Chinese service in Hankow, troops will continue hitherto to was released by the garrison head-be stationed there, the places in aw at noon to-day following actually occupied by er... They representations by Mr, Tadahisa will have the right of carrying on Matsudaira, acting Japanese Consul-field exercises and rifle practices, ete.
General here. without informing the Chinese auth-Mr. Tsao was arrested at his home orities, except in the case of feux de by two Chinese men in uniform at 10.30 o'clock last night, Stating that guerre.
Japanese forces have been carry-Mr. Tsao's detention had been caused ing on manceuvres in the vicinity of by a misunderstanding, the Chinese Lukouchiao for several years, and officials at 10 o'clock this morning last week's exercises were held in promised Mr, Matsudaira to order the preparation for this autumn's large- Prisoner's releasc.—Dom scale manœuvres, the official con-
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