Tientsin, July 27.
Britons residing in Tangku and Taku, at the mouth of the Hai River, were warned today by a group of anti-British Chinese to evacuate within four weeks. The safety of British lives and property in the two Chinese port towns could not be guaranteed if the Britons ignored the warning, the anti-British group said.
Meanwhile, the Japanese blockade of the British and French Concessions here has been considerably tightened. Recently, several British citizens were forced to wait hours before they were permitted to pass the barriers.
There are 17 Britons in Taku and 11 in Tangku, the British Consulate announced today. For the present, no plans to evacuate them from the two towns have been made, the British Consulate said.
British women and children in the two towns, however, as precautionary measure spent last night aboard a tugboat in the river.
H.M.S. Sandwich, a sloop, has been standing by at Tangku since the anti-British riots there last Sunday, when British property was damaged.—United Press.
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