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Show emu sends i ULTIMATUM, BUT WILLNDT FIGHT Japanese Continue in Pos session of the Shantung Railway, Germans Fail to Carry Out Threat MIKADO'S FORCES TAKE YAP ISLAND Assurance Given at Wash-mgton Wash-mgton That Occupation Is Only Temporary, Siege Guns Ready PEKLN Oct S 1 io a m The gov eminent has been informed that a party of th rty Japanese Wednesday oecup ed the stat ons of the bhantung ra lway at Ta nan the western term nus of the German o Tned road The fore gn off ce immed ately on rece pt of th s ntell gence deli ered another protest to the Japanese legat on demanding the w th drawal of the Japanese troops and ask mg or a replj Hone er desp te the ultmatumlVe character of the Chinese note t is ad m tted that Ch na does not intend to fight Kso at the solicitat oh of the government nh h feared that otherwise the s tuat on w th Japan would be fur ther corn pi cated the Germans ha e not fulfilled their threat to djnam te the! br dges unless Ch na compelled the Jap i anese to .withdraw from the ra lway J Meant me the Japanese are preparing to reopen trafrt on the road j The feeling here against the Japan ese s becon ng intense The papers publ sh accounts of their alleged m sbe ha or with character st c exaggeration Japanese Called Dwarfs lor example a pet t on from the cii zens of We Hs en savs The Japanese am ed here three dajs ago s nee when the mi ery susta ned by the people s bej ond descr ot on The" actual number here has not yet been as certa ned, bat the streets and the lanes are crowded w th these dwarfs An nier cau m s onar who s act lug as a correspondent at We Hs en telegraphs tel-egraphs that a total of 300 Japanese: had arr ved there by the th rd day of occupation and that on the fourth day all but th rtv of the sold ers proceeded westward w thont hav ng molested the people although the nhab tants are much in fear of both the Japanese and j the Ch nese troops From other m ss onar es and corre spondents come reports of such cases of wrongdoing. as might be expected from! a few in anv army 30 000 strong The trouble usually results from the Japan 1 ese sy'rtem of b lletng on the nat -es! and draw ng on them for omm ssary re j quirements Ch nese com nun t es are compelled to meet qu cklv large and un u al le nands n, the wa of snj pi es ! but, acord ng to several reports they are pa d more than the market price for these suppl es by the army On the other hand t is sa d that o as onallj nd dual cases of plunder ng the farm ers and abuse of women are reported |