Tientsin, Mar. 7. BUTSH ana French Consular officials called on_the Japanese authorities yesterday, it-is understood, and reminded them. that they still had no reply to their recent demarches, in which they asked against whom the barricades around the British and French Concessions were directed and when they would be moved. They pressed for a speedy answer to these points.
The artificial restrictions around the two concessions, so far from having been reduced, appear to have been intensified in the last few days.
A tour of the foreign boundaries today by Reuter's Jcorrespondent, revealed that the British and French Concessions /have been converted into a virtual concentration camp.
'An impenetrable network of barrieades and live-wires completely. shuts off all exits except for a few major thoroughfares, which: are all heavily guarded at' the border by armed Japanese sentries and Chinese police. "Traffic, however, has not Been interfered with up to the pres en Adding an ominous note, machinegun emplacements have been built at strategic points, pointing to the foreign areas, Barricades have also been placed along the streets of the special areas in the blocks adjoining the Concessions, causing much inconvenience to' puzzled residents, Chinese in Tientsin Areas Searched tientsin, Mar, 12.
Since noon yesterday, the British and French police have been searching all' Chinese entering the foreign areas, 10 make sure that they are not carrying arms—Reuter.
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