London, Sept. 3.
Foreign, Chinese and Japanese circles here are equally at a loss to explain the significance of the Japanese military order to Japanese residents to evacuate the British and French Concessions at Tientsin.
Perplexity and some concern have been occasioned in the City, says the "Daily Telegraph."
Some suggest that the Japanese military authorities have conceived the fantastic idea of creating a new Japapese port at the mouth of the rivet, thus leaving the Concessions high and dry.
Japanese circles here believe that some settlement modifying the order is likely owing to the inconvenience and loss which Japanese businessmen would suffer by a withdrawal from the Concessions.—Reuter.
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