. The main street of "Tsingtao was deserted this afternoon when a company of Japanese marines, with naval artillery, arrived at the Japanese Town Hall.
The cruiser Ashigara, flagship of the Admiral in command, is anchored in Tsingtao Bay among the neutral men-o-war. Aboard the ship is Mr. Otaka, Japanese Consul-General in Tsingtao, who left Tsingtao early in July with the 16,000 Japanese residents there.
The Japanese have approached Herr Antoschowitz with a view to his resuming his post as Chief Inspector of the Tsingtao Police, which he resigned a few days ago as a protest. against the action of the Chinese police in selling recovered loot to pay their wages and in demanding "protection money" from property owners.
Herr. Antoschowitz joined the Tsingtao police 39 years go. He was taken a prisoner of war in 1914, when the Japanese occupied Tsingtao, and rejoined the police in 1926, Great cordiality prevails here between the German residents and members of the Japanese landing force. Germans and Japanese are constantly greeting each other old friends.—Reuter.
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