Japanese Plans Drafted at Tokyo Meeting Tokyo, Jan. 11.
Plans for the rehabilitation of the electric power industry in Central China were drafted yesterday at a special meeting of representatives of leading power concerns throughout Japan.
Eighteen investigators, representing the participating firms, will leave here for Shanghai in the middle of this month to make a study of the situation on the spot.
The investigation will be conducted in ce-operation with the Shanghai branch of the Hsing Chung Kungssu, a leading Japanese holding company in North China, Eighty foreigners, consisting of Germans, Americans and Britons, were safe in Tsinan following the Occupation of the Shantung capital by Japanese forces, a Japanese Em-Massy spokesman said lest night.
Information to this effect collected in Tsinan by Japanese consular auhorities from their German, American and British colleagues. had been meee ved in Shanghai yesterday, he ead.
Forty Germans, engaged in various activities, were all "safe and sound."
Of forty Americans, ten were connected with Cheeloo University, the former Shantung Christian College. The remainder were mostly nurses and persons connected with St. John's Hospital, the spokesman declared.
Only "one' or two" Britons, believed to be missionaries, remained. All British and American business and professional men were evacuated before the city was endangered by the Japanese thrust from the north.
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