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 reflected in the sense of responsibility and solidarity of the community front, The conviction is gaining ground that Tientsin will prove a test case primarily in relation to the ultimate 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."
In a leading article the "Peking and Tientsin Times" states that "the local situation is no longer a local situation. Recognition of this fact is the key to the Tientsin response to the call now made upon it in its own interests, and as playing a pert in bigger things."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.