Suggests Commission to Judge Guilt of Four Suspects Be Appointed; Japan Ready to Act London, June 13.
ENTER is informed that the British Government has proposed to Japan the appointment of a commission of three to decide whether the four Chinese demanded by the Japanese in Tientsin are guilty and should be handed over.
The commission would be composed of one Japanese, one British, and one neutral as chairman.—Reuter.
Tientsin, June 13.
While Britons here faced a n increasingly serious situation with dogged determination and with no trace of nervousness, the Japanese today took initial steps to blockade the British and French Concessions.
The Commander of the Japanese Garrison in Tientsin this afternoon issued a proclamation banning pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the Japanese Concession, the Chinese quarter and the British and French Concessions on and after 6 a.m. tomorrow, This measure, it was stated, was taken to "suppress the activities of anti-Japanese and Communist elements."
The International Bridge will be closed from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight, while Yamaguchi, Asahi, Fuyo, Tai-yan, Chungehien and British Race Course Roads will be closed from 6 am. to 10 pin.
The proclamation states that all pedestrians and vehicles will be liable to examination and search by the Japanese authorities at seven specified points, while all vessels plying on the Pei River, which runs through Tientsin, are to heave to at Dairen Pier, near the Japan Bridge, undergo inspection, Violators of the proclamation are to be dealt with as stipulated by the Commander of the Japanese Garrison.
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