Nanking, Feb. 7 In the solemn atmosphere following a memorial service for Japanes officers and men killed in action, General Iwane Matsui, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Fore in Central China, to-instructed his commanders to tighten discipline in their units in order to "enhance the prestige of the Imperial Arm; Among the high officers so addressed on the wind-swept Nanking Parade Ground was Lieutenant-General Prince Yasuhiko Osaka. a member of the Imperial family.
Speaking at length on he deter-ramation of the Japanese forces in the face of the prospect of lengthy hostilities, General Matsui called the attention of his subordinates to the necessity of putting an end to various reports affecting the prestige of the Japanese troops.
This action, said to be un precedent the annals of the Japanese was taken in the face of recurring adverse comment on reported breaches of discipline by Japanese toops—Domei.
The head of the editor of a local Chinese newspaper, together with a notice that this was a "warning to anti-Japanese elements" was the gruesome discovery of two patrolling French Police constables just outside the French Municipal Gaol late on Sunday evening. The editor, Mr. Tsai Tio-tou, had been missing for two or three days. On January 24 last, the office of his newspaper was bombed, two Chinese, a man and a woman, being badly injured.
The two police constables were on patrol duty on Route Stanislas Chevalier, and were just passing the large gaol when they discovered the decapitated head of the unfortunate editor, resting beside a cement post. From the post fluttered a small slip of paper which bore, in Chinese characters, the words "A Warning to Anti-Japanese Element The head was actually not identified till yesterday morning. Mr. Tsai was a native of Pootung and 34 years of age at the time of his death. The body has not yet been found, but the French Police have opened an intensive investigation,
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