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SHANGHAI, TO-DAY, 105 PM. BRISK MACHINE-GUN FIRE BETWEEN The CENTRAL ARMY TROOPS AND A POWERFUL Welch LY REINFORCED CONTINGENT OF THE JAP ANESE NAVAL LANDING PARTY IS GOING ON, WITHIN THREE HUNDRED YARDS OF YOUR CORRESPONDENT.
The first clash this morning occurred at about nine o'clock when plain clothed men, believed to be of the Peace Preservation Corps, occupied a vacant cottage opposite the Japanese Naval Club just north of North Szechuen Road.
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TOKYO CABINET'S EMERGENCY MEETING
Tokyo, 2.23 pm After an emergency meeting of
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China to abandon her pro- urge vocative attitude and in the mean- while it was decided that Japan should take the fullest measures for the protection of Japanese lives and
They were observed from the Naval Club and firing between the two buildings commenced imme- diately Bullets flew round the Japanese Naval the full Japanese Cabinet, a spokes property in Shanghai-Reuter. Attache's Office and the office of the Domer New Agency, but no non-combatant was hit. The inva ders retreated when reinforcements arrived from Japanese Naval Headquarters.
The real fighting did not begin until about ten o'clock when a clash occurred off the North Sze- chnen Road on the Paoshan-Wangping Road cor- ner. Here there was a brisk exchange of machine- gun fire between Japanese machine-guns and the Peace Preservation Corps.
ALL TRAFFIC ON THE NORTH BRIDGE HAS BE
THE POST OF
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ESE CONSULATE GENERAL AND
LANDING PARTZS HEADQUARTERS W PLAIN CLOTHED MEN THIS MORNING
SNIPING BRIGADES ACTIVE
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JAPAN- NAVAL CHINESE
Shortly before one o'clock, your correspondent, who was in North Szechuen Road, heard fighting going on
It appears that the clash proceeding is between
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