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CHINESE

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

ATTACK ON

PEIPING FEARED

Japanese Military Take Stringent Measures

MORE MYSTERY

JAPANESE

TROOP MOVES

Tsingtao, To-day.

It is reliably reported that the Japanese troops are withdrawing from the Kiao-Tsi Railway in Shantung.

Garrisons are being maintain-

ed at the important stations on the railway only.

Artillery And Tanks In Squares Ready For Action

Peiping, To-day.

KOWLOON

RESIDENTS" PROTEST

>

A special meeting of the General Peiping is full of rumours that a boldly conceived Committee of the Kowloon Resi- attack by Chinese on Tientsin and Peiping is dents Association was held last about to take place immediately. One report evening to consider letters received talks of 100,000 Chinese soldiers, armed with by the Association protesting. tanks and artillery, that are assembled in the against Government's proposal mountains west of Peiping.

Foreigners are not permitted At to travel on the railway until further notice.

There has been a large with- drawal of military equipment from Tsingtao during the last few days.

Wharf admission was próhibit-

Reu ed to civilians yesterday. ter.

SHANGHAI WARNING ABOUT REFUGEES

erect:

all events, it is undisputed that the Chinese civil Marina,

authorities of both larg cities and the Ja-¦ It was

well' panese military have taken great precautions.

The gates of Peiping, in the last few days, have been closed and not opened again till 8 o'clock the next morning.

NEW H.K.VD.C

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ernment to discuss the possibility of alternative sites.

On some squares in Peiping, artillery has been drawn up and tanks stand prepared. unconfirmable rumours have arisen from the fact that the

It is understood that the new First Anniversary of the. Taking of Peiping by the Japanese is Commandant of the Hong Kong The Japanese, Volunteer Defence Corps will be near at hand. seem to expect that there will be Major H. B. Rose, of the 1st. Bn. The Wiltshire Regiment, which is disturbances..

stationed at Bangalore.

He is expected to arrive in the Commandant.

Moreover, it is a fact that in the mountains not far from Pei- ping a great number of Chinese irregulars have gathered. A few Shanghai, To-day.

days ago when Anniversary of Drastic reforms in the local re- the outbreak of the War occar- must be red, bands of these irregulars lief administration undertaken in order to prevent forced their way right up to the charity from becoming a serious gates of Peiping and put the demoralising factor in the habits Power Works out of action,

of the city's refugees, is recom- mended by Mr. John Earl Baker, Director of the Shanghal Inter- national Red Cross, in a letter to the executive committee.

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JAP. TROUBLES

AT KIUKIANG

Mr. Baker points out that the problem of the refusal able-

· bodied refugees to work and the

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. tendency to stay in camps as long

GUERILLAS ARE HARAS- as there were ample rations to satisfy hunger was becoming SING THE JAPANESE AT acute, and charitable organisa- KIUKIANG, ACCORDING TO THIS tions cannot solve this problem JAPANESE DESPATCHES they debunk sentimentalism and FROM THAT AREA face facts. Reuter.

MORNING.

Confusion and fear reigns among the non-combatants in

CANTON CHOLERA and around Kiukiang and the

Japanese, endeavouring to estab flish order, have met with no

Quarantine restrictions have been success. imposed against arrivals from Can- Snipers are reported to be ton on account of cholera, but the active in the city and these have restrictions Imposed against accounted for many Japanese Our Own Correspon- rivals from Canton on account of soldiers. small-pox have been removed,

dënt.

Major E. J. R. Mitchell has tem- Colony within a week or two, porarily assumed the duties

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