A new body, known as {he "Foreign Community Emergency Com-j mittee,"
has been formed io cooperate with the China Merchants Association in the administration of Tsingtao.
A Briton, Mr. E. H. Gordon, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. is chairman of the new body. Mr. W., an Ameri-
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Mr. Theodore Antoschowitz, a German, who holds the post of Chief Inspector of the Tsingtao police, has resigned as a protest against the action of the Chinese police in selling recovered loot in order to p: their own salaries, which are in ai rears.
The Chief Inspector handed in his resignation also because the Chinese police were demanding protection money from property owners, posting notices saying "protected" or "unprotected" on such property.
Mr. Antoschowitz joined the Tsingtao police 39 years ago, and was taken prisoner of war in 1914 whi the Japanese occupied Tsingtao. He rejoined the police force in 1920.—Reuter.
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