Tientsin Blockade Enforce d (Continued) wholly sponsored and directed bs Japanese, and that the members of committee searched all who possessed special passes Although the news of the can-collation of the Japanese parade to the graves of Japanese Killed in the Boxer Rebellion is greeted with relief, the situation remains grave.
Interviewed by Reuter, a prominent British local resident' said: "The increasing gravity of the situation is telleeted in the sense of responsibility and solidarity' "of the community Front." The conviction is-gaining round that Tientsin will prove st test primarily in relation to the Japanese economic and political domination in North China, Which has long been regarded in Tientsin as the minimum essential to the success of Japanese plans, and secondarily in relation to the extent to which increased Japanese influence Will be tolerated in other parts of China." support and I further doubt that the United States would adopt such a course of action just, over the mere Question of Tientsin." he remarked
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