Peiping, Feb. 17.
According to a reliable report, the local police authorities have received instructions to remove all traces of anti-British posters and to destroy unused stacks pf the same.
The police are also instructing Chinese shop-keepers to remove signs in the Japanese language from shop-fronts and shop windows.
In a statement yesterday on the recent disruption of the Peiping-Hankow Railway through e destruction of a railway bridge to the south of Paoting, the Japanese spokesman denied this was due to Chinese guerilla activity. He stated the accident was due to the use of overweight locomotives on the line.
It was known locally that railway traffic had been disrupted since February 6, with trains running only as far as Paoting from Peiping, and it was reported that this was due to Chinese guerilla activity.
Traffic on the railway, further south of Paoting, was reported to The House applauded the statement of Mr. Knute Hill, Washington Democrat, that the United States undoubtedly has as much right to fortify Guam as she has to the freedom of the seas, but "it would be folly to do 50. The best thing for us to do is home." have resumed yesterday.—Reuter.
Some speakers insisted that the funds could be spent more usefully for domestic purposes in relic? farm aid, elc.
The Guam item was eliminated from the bill following arguments contending that development of the island for the Navy might increase the danger of Americc's becoming involved in Far Eastern conflicts United Press.
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