Tsingtao, Jan. 10.
A meeting between high Japanese emeers and the leaders of the 'Tringlao Speclat Police, or foreign volunteers, was held at the Chinese 'Municipal' Building at four o'clock this afternoon, The Admiral command df the Japanese forces have given a pledge that they would ce-operate in maintaining peace and order in Tsingtao.
The Japanese Consul-General, Mr. S. Otaica, who arrived in Tsingtao with the Japanese landing party, went ashore yesterday and reopened. the Consulate, Imperial Japanese Landing force is now in tsingtao," ind the welfare of the city will' henceforth be In their hands. 'The lives and property of the nationals of 'Third Powers will be absolutely' respected. Thearitly thank you for looking after the welfare of Tsingtao to dat Mr. A. Re Hogg, the British commandant of the volunteers, informed. the Admiral that the foreign guards at the waterworks, the only ones still on active duty, would be with drawn to-morrow.
Mr. Hogg made a plea for the Chinese railway guards, who, he said, ad risked their lives to] pose. a contingent of the Japanese defend Japanese property. The Ad-rival replied: "The railway guard need have no fear for their lives."
Among those present at the meet ing were two Americans, Mr. Keefe and Mr. W. Stay Elliot; two Russians, Colonel Melenitzki and Mr.
Belov; and four Germans, Hess, Theodore Antoschowitz, Nauert and F. Bischof.
Replying to a question, the Admiral, speaking through an into prefer, Mr, Tokashita, an old resident of Tsingtao, sal AMI the interests of the Nanking, Government and the Municipal Government have been taken over by Streets Deserted 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 onchor= ed in Tsingtao Bay among the neutral men-o'-war. Aboard the chip 1g Mr. Otako, Japanese Consul General in' Tsingtao, who lett Tsing tao early in July with the 16,000 Japanese residents there.
The Japanese have Antoschowitz with a view to hig 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 Chineve police in selling recover~ ed loot to pay their wages and in demanding "protection money" from property owners, Herr Antoschowitz joined the Tsingtao police 39 years ago. He was taken a prisoner at war 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 as old. friends.—Reuter.
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