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BARRICADES IN
CHAPEI
FIGHTING BREAKS OUT AT
PEIPING ONCE
NO FURTHER BELIEF IN INCIDENT FIZZLING OUT
Fighting between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping was resumed at 11.35 last night, when the rattle of machine guns in the Wanping area again threw the old capital into consternation just as the inhabitants were beginning to breath more freely.
The situation, in spite of two attempts at friendly settlement, has become more ominous and it is feared in Shanghai, says a Reuter cable, that a final "show down" and serious fighting is now in- evitable.
DEFENCE MEASURES IN SHANGHAI
Little credence is attached to the idea that the incident will fizzle out and the Chinese believe that th eonly hope of avert- ing the conflict lies in intervention by the chief Powers.
General apprehension is felt in the city and the authorities are erecting sandbags and barricades around the North Station, Chapei. NANKING GIVEN WARNING
MORE
MR. CORDELL HULL
INTERVENES
Mild Reminder To The
Japanese Envoy
Washington, To-day. The State Department announces that the Secretary of State, Mr.
GENERAL KATSUKI IN WAR ZONE
Tientsin, To-day:
Immediately on his arrival from Tokyo, General Kiyoshi Katsuki, the new General Officer Command- ing the Japanese troops in North China, held a military conference in Tientsin yesterday afternoon. It is stated that General Katsuki went to inspect the front at Wanping after the meeting. Our Own Correspondent.
Cordell Hull, has informed the Japanese Ambassador and the Coun sellor of the Chinese Embassy that lishment of an autonomy in the province of Hopei. The papers an armed conflict between Japan
stress that China must vigorously and China would be a great blow to
her the cause of peace and world pro oppose such an aim and assert
sovereignty over the Northern pro- gress. Reuter.
|vinces.Trans-Ocean.
NEW G. 0. C. ARRIVES
Tientsin, To-day.
It is rumoured here that General Kiyoshi Katsuki, the new G.O.C. the Japanese Forces in N. China,
DISCUSSION IN COMMONS
flew to Fengtai yesterday morning. Mr. Eden's Recitation
It is also learned that a high Japanese officer was severely wound- ed during the fighting, He was at oncè transported to the military hos- pital at Fengtai.-Da-Dao.
JAPANESE MOBILISE MORE TROOPS
Shanghai, To-day.
- Of Events
London, To-day. The clash between the Chinese and Japanese outside Peiping was the subject of several questions in the Commons last evening. The Foreign Secretary said that the information that had reach It is reported that two army led him was so far incomplete corps in Japan have been instruct- but it indicated that Japanese troops ed to mobilise and are ready to holding manoeuvres near Lukouchião, be dispatched to North China at a west of Peiping, came into condict moment's notice.
also It is
re- during the night of July 7 and 8 ported that the Japanese authorities with a battalion of the Chinese 29th.
in Army, garrisoning that town.
North China to be ready to evacuate There was considerable fighting
Our Own Correspondent.
the Chinese from Nanyuan and the Japanese from Tungchow, east
In Nanking the Japanese are insisting that the have informed their nationals crisis must be settled locally, but the Chinese For- eign Office declares that the Japanese have been informed that no local Sino-Japanese agreement will be valid unless approved by the Central Gov- ernment.
This has evoked a strong Japanese warning against interference with a regional settlement concluded to meet specific local conditions.
JAPANESE ATTACK of Peiping, joining in the fray.
✅ALLEGED
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Each side charged the other with provocation: The Japanese demand- ed that the Chinese troops should
west of the river which flows past that town.
Sung Cheh-yuan's. New evacuate Lukouchiao and retire to
Order
were repulsed.
Peiping, To-day,
The Chinese are reported to have
After the third verbal uncondi-done this and, according to préss REPORTS STATE THAT THE MAIN RAILWAYS LEAD- tional withdrawal of both the Chin-reports, agreed to replace certain ING NORTH ARE PRACTICALLY MONOPOLISED BY TROOP ese and Japanese troops yesterday military units east of the river by MOVEMENTS, WHILE TRAINLOADS OF JAPANESE TROOPS afternoon, the latter attacked again militia on the understanding that ARE ARRIVING AT FENGTAI AND TIENTSIN FROM MAN at 10 p.m. yesterday but they Japanese troops should withdraw to the neighbourhood of Fengtai fur- CHURIA AND JAPAN.
ther east, pending a settlement. Seeing that the Japanese troops DEEMERGENCY ORDERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO SHANG-have no sincerity for peace, Gener the other of infringing the terms Subsequently, both sides accused ́HAI JAPANESE FIRMS TO BE READY IF NECESSARY TO al Sung Cheh-yuan has instructed EVACUATE ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WHILE THE JAP- the 29th. Army to occupy Wanping-ing has taken place. ANESE CONSULS IN THE OTHER TREATY PORTS ARE ALSO hsien again.-Our Own Correspon- TAKING PROTECTIVE STEPS
MEANWHILE THE NANKING GOVERNMENT HAS PRO- MULGATED A LAW ENABLING THE REQUISITION OF FOOD- STUFFS, LABOUR AND MILITARY SUPPLIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IN WARTIME.
NANKING'S ORDER No Settlement Without Waichiaopu Approval
Nanking, To-day. General Ho Ying-ching, the War Minister, has ~instructed General Sung Cheh-yuan, Chairman. of the Hopel Chahar Political Council and Commander-in-chief of the 29th. Army not to make concessions to
dent.
JAPAN'S "PLAN"
China Must Assert Sovereignty
of the truce and intermittent fight-
Under the terms of Article 9 of the Protocol of Sept. 7, 1901, Japan and other foreign Powers are en- titled to station troops, at certain points in North China in order to keep open free communication be- tween Peiping and the sea. The number of Japanese troops in North China is believed to amount to se- The Chinese papers both here and veral thousand. The possible re- Minister, informed the Japanese in Nanking strongly urge that percussions on British interests and Embassy yesterday that any set. Japanese "aggression in Peiping on international trade generally
[ent for the settlement of the pre
sent incident, and bud
Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Foreign
me
Shanghai, To-day.
„must be resisted to the utmost.
of
the tension between China and tlement will not be recognised by, the Chinese Government unless it The papers see in the recent in- Japan added Mr. Eden was ful-
view]y recognised. is approved by the Chinese Foreign 'cidents, confirmation of the Office Our Own Correspondent..
that the action of the Japanese forms If the Anglo unpanthe conversa- part of a carefully conceived plan, tions developed in London that would CHINESE REINFORCEMENT the object of which s to consolidate evidently afford an opportunity of the Japanese position on the Pei-discussing these events with the Peiping, To-day.ping-Hankow Railwa and also to Japadese
ador It is the is learned in military circles and a pretext for demanding the earnest desire of the British Gov- the Japanese authorities and not to here that a large contingent of withdrawal of the 29th Route ernment that there should be settle- allow his army to retreat.
Chinese troops has arrived at Chang Army.
It
send maand de Valment not only of the present dis- The realisation of this plan, in pute but of the difficulties existing In reply, General Sung declares Sin Tien. This has improved the that he is ready to obey the in- morale of the soldiers at the front the opinion of the papers, is destin- generally between China and Japan.
Da Dao.,
ed to serve as a
a preface to the estab British Wireless structions the Nanking Govern- extensively.