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Show JAPANESE CAVALRY SLOWLniHG Attack Upon Formidable German Defenses at Tsing-tau Tsing-tau Not Imminent. PliKIN, Oct. 6. 1:30 a. m. The Japanese Jap-anese cavalry, tho advance guard of the troops that are occupying the German-owned German-owned railway connecting the German leased possession of Klaochow with Tainan Tai-nan in the west of Shangtung, has reached Tsing-Chow, thirty -live miles west ' of Wei-Hslen. The Japanese legation has promised the Chinese foreign office that Japanese would occupy the railway with the fewest few-est troops possible, who would remain close to the line, and that civilian railroad rail-road men would be brought from Japan to displace the soldiers as soon as it is possible. Further, all the Chinese railroad rail-road employees would' be continued in the service. 1 The Chinese government, however, will continue its diplomatic efforts to cause the Japanese to withdraw to the vicinity of Klaochow. The Germans threaten to dynamite all the bridges and burn all the stations on the line if the Japanese continue con-tinue their march westward. A correspondent at Tslmo. north of Tsingtau. who was compelled to leave that town because of illness on September Septem-ber 2'i, has arrived here. He reports that he saw no siege guns in the neighborhood of Tsingtau. The Japanese are proceeding proceed-ing leisurely, he states, which supports i the general understanding here that they ! are not yet ready to attack the formidable formida-ble final line of the German defenses. The British troops, like the Japanese, went to Kiaochow without tenta and are camping in the open air at Tslmo, which Is the Japanese headquarters. A correspondent at Hankow, nnder Monday's date, reports that the Russian garrison, numbering 2?.$, sailed for Vladivostok Monday night. Japanese soldiers sol-diers and British and French civilians, displaying the tings of 'the allies, witnessed wit-nessed the departure. |