Tokyo, June 8.
Following the British refusal to deliver the alleged assassins of Mr. Cheng Shi-kang, the Commissioner of Customs who was killed in a theatre in the British Concession on April 9, the Japanese authorities in Tientsin have decided to "take a free hand in suppressing lawless elements" there, according to a Japanese presi message from that city.
"The force of circumstances," it adds, "apparently compelled the Japanese authorities to cut off the British Concession from the outside world."
The message predicts that the har-hour facilities now centred in the British and French concessions will be transferred to a special district down-stream from them.
At the same time, the message con: cludes, Japanese concerns, namely the Yokohama Specie Bank, the Mitsubishi Trading Company and a branch office of the Federal Reserve Bank, have also decided to transfer their offices from the British and French concessions to some other part of Tientsin, if necessary.—Reuter.
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