THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1937.
FIGHTING AT
AT PEIPING Foreign Envoys Urged To Withdraw All Nationals
NANKING OFFERS TO PUT PLANES AT DISPOSAL
regions affords.
"China will not lie down if the
FUNTHER HEAVY TROOP Fengtai and Marco Polo bridge
MOVEMENTS BY CHINA AND JAPAN
General Ho Ying-ching, the War Minister, has also declined to give interviews to Japanese officials or diplomatic, representatives according message from Nanking. Our Own Correspondent.
KWANGTUNG'S DEFENCE
Inspection
Japanese military authorities in Yu Han-mau's Tour Of North China continue to employ aggressive tactics to occupy for- cibly another piece of Chinese We are yet unwilling
Peiping, To-day. territory
Canton, To-day. It is officially confirmed that Gen-
Peiping spent a sleepless night with a terrific to abandon hope that the reason-eral Yu Han-mau, Pacification Com- cannonading proceeding right under the southable leaders of Japan will have the missioner for Kwangtung, and Gen-
wall of the city, where the Japanese appear to be might
courage to champion right over eral Lo Chuk-ying, commanding the
On our part we are Whampoa Headquarters, flew to
pressing slowly forward, although, according to ready to live in peace with Japan Changchow in West Fukien, yester- Chinese claims, at a heavy cost in killed and wound-China's sovereignty"-Reuter.
when peace is compatible with day morning.
ed.
KAWAGOE GOING TO PEIPING
It is reliably reported that Gener- als Yu and Lo will also visit East Kwangtung to inspect the prepara- tions for national defence there. They will fly to Kuling directly after their tour of inspection.
Our
Efforts for peace appear to have been broken off and all reports indicate that thousands of troops are now being concentrated for the major conflict considered inevitable, with Nanking taking every And Hsu Shik-ying To Own Correspondent. possible measure in support of the 29th Route Army.
It is officially admitted that the foreign ambassadors have been requested to make. arrangements for the withdrawal of all for- eigners from Peiping owing to the inability of the Chinese Government to guarantee their safety. Nanking fears that Peiping itself may soon become the chief battle- ground of the conflict.
Tokyo.
Shanghai To-day. Mr. Hsu Shik-ying, the Chinese Ambassador to Japan, will return to Tokyo on Friday.
LARGE JAPANESE CONCENTRATION Foreign Military Observations
London, To-day.
Large Japanese forces are stead-
Mr. S. Kawagoe, the Japanese Ambassador to China, is reported to be planning to fly to Peiping from Tsingtao to-day in an attempt toily advancing into North China, ac- negotiate with the Hopei-Chahar cording to latest reports from the Political Council on the Lukuochigo Far East. incident. Our Own Correspondent. Foreign military observers estim- ate that 3,000 Japanese reinforce ments have already arrived at and 10,000 others are at various Tientsin by train from Manchuria points between Shanhaikwan Tientsin.
ARMING OF CIVILIANS
Tientsin, To-day.
It is authoritatively learned that the Japanese Consul-General în
Diplomatic quarters here remain. hopeful that news of close Anglo- American contact on the situation (reported in Page Nine) may have fa- vourable consequences, though there is doubt whe- Tientsin has issued a standing or- ther effective action is possible under present con-der to all Japanese residents ditions. Our Own Correspondent.
Tientsin that they are to be provid- ed with guns and ammunition in view of the present situation.
Shanghai, To-day.
400 JAPANESE CAUSALTIES
CLAIMED
in
and
Nothing more than small buz fierce encounters, în one of which the Chinese troops fiercely charged the opposing Japanese with their historic, big swords, are reported from the fighting line in the last twenty-four hours, but various signs indicate the continued gravity of the si- tuation.
According to Japanese reports from Nanking, Da-Dao. the Chinese Government, following their request to foreign Ambassadors to evacuate their respective nationals from Peiping, have i
now offered to carry
Peiping, To-day. out the evacuation by air owing to breakdown in the Japanese, about 1,000 in number, Heavy losses were sustained by land communications caused by troop movements who attempted to penetrate into the on the railways. Reuter.
positions of the Chinese at Wan
EVACUATION OF P
PEIPING Ping during their encounter outside asked foreign diplomats to instruct The Nanking Government has HONGKEW TENSION.
the City wall yesterday morning. On their nationals to leave Peiping, as the Chinese side the "Big Sword they are unable adequately to pro- Corps" were very active, and no less than 400 Japanese were killed.
tect them. This is the heaviest loss the have ever experienced
London, To-day.
Japanese troops and the naval landing party, stationed in barracks near Hongkew Park, have Japanese been ordered to stand by in readiness for eventual- since the Hsifengkow "war" four ity, while Japanese warships in harbour have clear- years ago.-Da-Dao.
ed for action.
SUNG CHEH-YUAN
Tientsin, To-day.
to
settle the Lukouchiao Incident ami-
Serious dissensions are report- ed among the leaders of the Chinese 29th Army, one fac- tion headed by General Sung Cheh-ynan being in favour of a compromise with the Ja- panese, and the other, led by Chin Teh-chun, Mayor of Pei-· ping, insisting on a show-down. The outcome is very uncertain.
Meanwhile, the Japanese military
authorities have isqued a warning that the entry of the Central Gov-
That intensive preparations are being made General Sung Cheh-yuan held by Nanking is indicated by the fact that all rail-conference with Government and way services are transporting troops and muni-morning. During the conference he military leaders here yesterday tions. Day and night a constant stream of troop reiterated that he was willing trains are moving towards North China. Trans- cably, but the Press reports that ernment & troops into Hopel Pro- Ocean.
A REUTER MESSAGE SAYS THAT THE JAPANESE COM-[mands were utterly without founda- Truce, agreement of 1984.
he had accepted the Japanese de- vince would violate the Tangku MAND DENIES THE ALLEGED BOMBING OF NANYUAN, tion. -Da-Dao. HEADQUARTERS OF THE 29TH ARMY, WHILE ADMITTING
NANYUAN BOMBING DENIED THE POSSIBILITY THAT JAPANESE PLANES FLEW OVER
DISCUSSION ENDED THE CITY AND WERE FIRED ON BY CHINESE TROOPS.
In Peiping, the Japanese military Shanghai, To-day. authorities deny the bombing of General Sung Cheh-yühn, Chair-Nanyuan, reported earlier, though Kung, who is on a visit of eco-man of the Hopel-Chahar Political they admit the possibility that Ja- nomic investigation to the United Council, after discussing with Gen-panese planes dropped leaflets over States, ascribes the Sino-Japanése feral Kiyoshi Katsuki, General Officer the town and were fired on by trouble to the premeditated plan of commanding the Japanese troops in Chinese troops. Japan to achieve a definite objec- North China, the propects of an un- terrific cannonade opened an conditional settlement of Lukuochlao, hvur after midnight this morning, in vain, has determined not to give apparently immediately any further interviews
in the to any neighbourhood of the south wall of Japanese offietat
|Peiping-Reuter.
se
DR. H. H. KUNG'S STATEMENT
China Will Not Lie
tay Downs acalentative.
DIRTY JOE
New York, To-day.⠀⠀⠀⠀✨ Dr. Kung was "alluding to A statement issued by the Chin- control of the vital "railway Finance Minister. Dr. H. H. systems which control of the