In the East

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 3

In the East

JAPANESE FORCES ON CHINESE SOIL. CHINA’S NEUTRALITY. [By Blictbio Tblhgeaph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Pekin, September 5. TWo thousand Jaapnese landed at Hingkau and Shanghai. Hardoon v a wealthy Jew, is raising and equipping at his own expense, a mounted force of local Britishers for the front.

China, following a precedent established in the Russo-Japanese war, declares that at such points within Linghau, Laichau, and the neighbourhood of Kiao-chao Bay, as are necessary as a passage for belligerent troops, she cannot bo responsible for the obligations of strict neutrality, but the belligerents must respect Chinese rights and private proeprty. The declaration permits Japan to use the main roads, to send an army to the rear of Tsingtao.

JAPANESE PARLIAMENT PASSES WAR VOfE OF £5,300,000. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Tokio, September 7. Parliament passed a war vote of fifty-three million yen.