Peking, Aug. 19.
The Japanese Legation is for warding its reply to the Chinese Government's Note of August 7 which demanded the carly with drawal of Japanese troops from the Chinese Eastern Railway. The reply states that the Japanese troops are being kept there in accordance with the agreement reached by the Allied representatives at Vladivostok, and that Japan carnot withdraw these troops without exposing her forees in the i ime Province to attack by the Bolsheviks. however, the Note continues, no intention of indulging in territorial aggression by maintaining troops permanently along the railway.—Reuter.
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