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Japanese Reticent On Operations In War Zone
COMMANDER IN SHANSI
SEVERELY WOUNDED
JAPANESE BROADCAST IN AMERICA
STARTLING CHINESE
COUP CLAIMS
NOT DENIED
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Peiping, 1.47 p.m., To-day
Foreign circles here are deeply intrigued the startling Chinese claims to a brilliant strat coup on the Peiping-Hankow Railway which jeopardised the Japanese forces on the Honan der, as a sudden reticence concerning war opera tions has descended on Japanese military head- quarters here.
JAPAN'S
REFUSAL EXPECTED
Power
Brusse the Foreign Agan Ambassador
Mr. Saito, the bassador to ranged to broadca the United States on on the subject of Japanese Action, în Own Correspond
the Treaty
1922
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was with Mr. Hirota for half an hour, uch was and at the end
talk, the handed to the Foreign Minister, latter stated that he required fur ther time to consider the invita
The note
Beyond a denial of the recapture of Paotingfu by the Chinese, all the official spokesman would say this morning in answer to your correspondent was Mr. Koki Hirota, reads: that: There is no news of any importance from any of the war zones this morning.
"In compliance with the request tion of the Government of Great Bri The feeling exists in tain, made with the approbation of quarte however that Japan
Independent confirmation of the Chinese the Goverment of the United will not attend the Conference. claims is at present unobtainable, but foreign mili- States, the Royal Government pro-Reuter and Our Own Correspon tary observers here point out that the rapidity of pose that the signatory States of dent.
the Japanese rush down the Peiping-Hankow Rail- way, making it impossible to provide adequate pro- tection for the line in their rear, exposed them to just the type of strategic counter-move which the Chinese insistently claim to have carried out.
One perhaps significant fact ob denial of the recapture of Shihchia- servable to-day was the despatch of chuang has been issued. reinforcements from Peiping down the line, and increased aerial ac tivity.
the present, no Japanese
SEVERE BATTLE CONTINUES ROUND TAZANG
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JAPANESE COMMANDER
WOUNDED
In the meantime, independent sources report a considerable sas ing of tension in Taiyuanfn and persistent reports of a severe de- feat inflicted on the Japanese troops moving on the capital from the east. These reports state that the Japanese force, of the strength of two brigades, suffered more than 2,000 casualties and is retiring on Ningtszekwan: Pass.
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