All the Japanese restrictions had been inaugur d at the time of the European crisis, the visitor added, and, in his opinion, it had been the ion io seize the two in the event of a war in Since the crisis had ended there had been an improvement of conditions in Ti in, Asked what was his opinion of the future of Tientsin, the visitor said that he thought it depended on events in Europe. If Germany was isolated *here then there would be an entirely different state of affairs in the port, he continued.
Summing up, he stated that Tientsin was in much the same position as Shanghai. Conditions there were no worse or no bert The Japanese had placed these restrictions upon the foreign community and, as in Shang-
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