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Chinese Sue For Cessation Of North China Battle

TROOPS GIVEN AN HOUR TO LEAVE SCENE OF COMBAT

AFTER NINE AND A HALF HOURS OF FIGHTING, AN ARMISTICE IN THE SINO- JAPANESE CLASH IN THE FENGTAI DIS- TRICT WAS DECLARED AT TEN O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

The Japanese commander agreed to an armistice on condition that the whole of the Chinese troops in the Lukuochiao district should be withdrawn by 11 a.m.

Official information, says Reuter, indicates that the fighting terminated at 9.30 a.m. after the Japanese had occupied Lukuochiao, disarmed the Chinese defenders, and had shelled the city of Wang Ping, a small walled city near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Peiping.

In the course of the shelling concentrat- ed on the city, to which the 29th Army troops had retreated, several Chinese houses were destroyed, and the Chinese claim that some score of Chinese soldiers and at least ten civilians were killed and wounded.

An official communique issued by the Japan- ese Military Headquarters in Tientsin, announcing the occupation of Luwangmiao, the Chinese mili- tary stronghold, stated that the Japanese troops were pursuing and machine-gunning the retreat- ing Chinese troops, who lost scores of men killed and many more wounded.

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The Japanese troops, when the har Political Council, have communique was issued, were agitating for open action against entering the walled town of the Japanese in North China. Lukouchiao and. disarming the Chinese troops there, while the Tokyo reports state that the grave Tientsin-Peiping telephone line incident was precipitated by

was found to be cut.

At seven o'clock thisˆ

the Japanese announced casualties in the clash

TOKYO REPORT

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battalion of the 29th, stationed at morning, Fengtai, near Peiping, who went at their into action against a battalion of to that Japanese troops carrying out man- stage included a Japanese officer kill- oeuvres in the vicinity of the old ed, several Japanese soldiers wound-capital.

ed.

TENSE ATMOSPHERE

WE BOTH SIDES REINFORCED

The clash developed rapidly from The state of tension which has a skirmish to a major engagement, existed in the North is assumed to be both sides rushing reinforcements to

the conflict between the the scene. Chinese and Japanese forces.

cause

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At 6 o'clock this morning, the An outbreak of hostilities has neighbourhood echoed to the roar of been feared for some time, since light artillery and the staccato the 29th Route Army, under the sounds of machine-gun fire. command of General Sung Cheh Significant feature of the situa yuan, Chairman of the Hopel-Cha- tion in North China has been the

FIGHTING CHINESE FAIL RENEWED TO COMPLY

Reports from Pei-

ping state that the

Sino Japanese arm-

istice was broken at

11.40 – this morning by thundering gun- fire, which followed breakdown in the peace negotiations between

the two parties. Reuter.

absence from his past of General Sung Cheh-yuan, Chairman of the

Hopel-Chahar Political Council, who has retired to his

o his home village, ap- parently to avoid pressure.

It is believed that the troops of

the 29th Army acted purely on their own initiative in the clash.

BUT ARMISTICE IS EXTENDED

Peiping, To-day.

The Chinese troops had not complied with the Jap- anese demand for with- drawal from Lukouchiao by 11 o'clock this morning but the Japanese have agreed to extend the armis- tice till noon.

The Chinese military an- thorities have received in- structions from Nanking. to localise the incident, though the Chinese allege that the clash was provoked by the Japanese firing on an out- post of the 29th Route Army-Reuter.

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