CHINA
TROUBLE BREWING. AN APOLOGY TO JAPAN. Aiistralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Tokio, August 10. Sensational details of the Cheng Chiatung affray are given. Chinese soldiers assaulted Japanese, whereupon the only Japanese policeman .11 Cheng Chiatung went to the barracks and remonstrated. He was shot at and killed by a Chinese soldier, and subsequently a squad of Japanese troops approached the barracks and the Chinese fired, wounding seventeen. Newspapers assert that Chinese mobs are threatening a hundred Japanese residents of Cheng Chiatung. Tokio, August 10. Official.—Encounters between the Japanese and Chinese at Cheng Chiatung continued throughout the night of the 13th. The Governor of Mukden on receiving a report of the trouble ordered the Chinese to cease, visited the Japanese Consul, and expressed the deepest regret. 1 RELF.LS LOOTING^ Received August 17, 7.15 p m. Canton, August 17. Rebels plundered Shanehun, on the bolder of British territory. Hordes of refugees are fleeing towards Hong Kong.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1916, Page 5
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