Peiping, Mar. 19.
For the purpose of balancing expenditure and revenue, the Peiping Post Office has, since last month, cut the salary of its staff by 40 per cent, according to Chinese reports.
Some 200 employees of branch post offices under the jurisdiction of the Peiping postal district have been discharged in the course of the present month and 400 others have been temporarily suspended.—Reute It appeared that the Japanese had received information of the presence of four alleged terrorists in the camp. One Tseng Ping-chang, who was reported to have given the information to the Japanese, was being detained in Hongkew.
The four men who gained. freedom yesterday were: Chin Min, teacher, Sung Yung-hai, Chen Yung-sung and Boo Kiu-moo, relief workers.
Meanwhile, ihe Chinese seized by a Japanese sentry on the Bund a week ago was still in the Japanese hands yesterday. The Chinese was reported to be loitering outside the Floating Restaurant off Peking Road Jetty, where Japanese marines were stationed. The suspicion of a Japanese sentry was aroused and the Chinese was caught after a chase along the Bund from Peking Road Jetty to Nanking Road Jetty. Requests by the Settlement Police for his extradition have so far proved to be of no avail.
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