Tientsin, Mar. 27.
Mr. Oswald White, the British Consul-General, has brought the attention of the Japanese Consul-General to an increasing number of delays the barriers to which Britons have been subjected during the past few days, Apart from the sudden increased diffeulties which have been experienced by individual Britons at the barriers lately, two large parties of British subjects, in-eluding many prominent per= sons, and officers of the British Municipal Council returning from a short holiday at Pel-taiyo on Monday and Tuesda; were detained at barrie without apparent reason. They were held up for over two hours before being permitted to pass through—Reuter,
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