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HOSTILITIES RENEWED Chinese And Japanese Force Clash Again At Dawn SPECIAL ORDERS GIVEN JAPANESE FLEET

29TH ARMY

ARMY REJECTS TRUCE TERMS

TRUCE WRECKED AT DAWN

alleged first firing by the Japanese troops on the Chinese troops gárri- soned there..

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It is officially reported that Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Chinese For- eign Minister, is to fly to Nanking from Kuling this morning to take

The attitude of Generalissimo

not known.

charge of the affair. Peiping, 10.40 a.m. An agreement had been reached for the joint Chiang Kai-shek on the incident is withdrawal of the Japanese and Chinese troops, but before it could be acted on, the fighting had been resumed at dawn to day.Reuter.

Tokyo, 11.40 a.m.

DEFIANT STAND

PRECAUTIONS

IN FUKIEN

Foochow, To-day.

Owing to the Sino-Japanese clash in North China and the in- creased numbers of foreign “plain- clothes men” in Amoy and Foo- chow, the authorities have en- forced state

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of semi-martial law. Our Own Correspondent:

REARMAMENT IN RUMANIA

Bucharest, To-day.

Official reports state that at a meeting of the Hopei-Chahar Poli-

A forced loan of 2,000,000,000 tical Council yesterday evening, it lei, which has just been imposed was determined to reject Japanese in Rumania, is for the purpose of

in the A considerable portion of the Lukuochiao area. It is also stated loan will be used for construction that the troops there have declared of new railways and highways along that they will die with the the Hungarian frontier. place. They are the soldiers

The Third Japanese Fleet, stationed in Chin-demands for the withdrawal of the rearmament, say the newspapers. ese waters, has been ordered to stand-by ready for Chinese troops stationed any eventualities.—Reuter.

JAPANESE SENDING MORE MEN

Peiping, To-day.

Twenty lorryloads of Japanese troops, in full fighting kit, left Tientsin at 8 p.m. last night for the Fengtai area.

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It is estimated that at least 3,000 Chinese troops are mobilised along the Peiping-Hankow Railway between Wan Ping and Chanhsien- tin.

The Chinese are refusing to budge from Lukuochiao as demanded by Japan, but declare that they are prepared to defend the city to the death. Reuter.

CHINESE LOSSES

Seventy Before First

Armistice

NANKING PROTEST

Part of the loan will be used to of General Feng Chi-an, Governor effect the mechanisation of the of Hopei, commander of the 37th. Rumanian Army, for which orders Division of the 29th. Army.

have been placed in Czecho-Slova- Reports from Tientsin late last kia.. night stated that Lukuochiao, the The papers draw attention to the city of Wanpingsien, is still in the presence in Bucharest of the Chief hands of the 37th. Division.

of the Polish General Staff, who is Our Own Correspondent.

conferring with Rumanian military leaders.-Trans-Ocean.

CHIANG'S INSTRUCTIONS

Peiping, To-day.

G.O.C. Returns The Chinese authorities in Pei- ping have received instructions from Major General A. W: Bartholo- Command- Nanking, July 8. Kuling that Japanese demand for mew, General Officer, An official of the Chinese Foreign the withdrawal of Chinese garrisoning the British Troops in China, Office called at the Japanese Em-troops from Lukouchiao prior to the returned this morning in the 8.8. bassy this evening to deliver a ver-discussion of other terms for the Carthage, after conducting an ins- bal protest against Japanese armed settlement of the Fengtai incident pectional tour of North China. He attacks on Chinese garrison forces in the North must not be acceded. was accompanied by Mrs. Bartholo- at Lukouchiao and the city of Wang-

ping.

Peiping, To-day, Although no official list of casu- alties has yet been issued by the Chinese authorities, it is reported

The Waichiaopu official declared that during the temporary armis- tice yesterday morning, a call-that Chinese would reserve all rights over revealed that over 70 Chinese in connection with the affair. soldiers had been shot.

Casualties in the subsequent re- sumption of fighting have not been estimated. Our Own Correspon- dent.

COUNTER-DEMANDS LODGED

Statement In North China Clash

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- In reply, Mr. Nitaka, Councillor of the Japanese Embassy, said that the Japanese Government had intention of aggravating the situa- tion.-Hua Nan

JAPANESE REINFORCEMENT

Tientsin, To-day. It is estimated that over one thousand Japanese troops were rushed to Lukouchiao and Fengtai from here yesterday in addition to heavy quantities of ammunition and Japanese garrison forces at Tangshan and other

arms.

Peiping, To-day. stalemate seems to have Tungchow, been arrived at in the clash be-points have been ordered to be in tween troops of General Sung readiness:

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The whole province of

Cheh-yuan's 29th Route Army Hopei is now in grip of war fever.j and Japanese forces outside

Peiping.

KULING CONFERENCE

Kuling, To-day. : Dr. Wang Chung Hui, Minister

The Japanese now demand com- plete withdrawal of the Chinese troops from the neighbourhood of of Foreign Affairs, held a lengthy Wangping, while the Chinese have conference

with Generalissimo

lodged a counter-demand for with-Chiang Kai Shek at the Generalis- drawal of the Japanese forces to simo's residence yesterday afternoon their regular garrison stations. in connection with the North China

developments.--Hua Nan.

Both sides express a wish to localise the incident and are trying to work out compromise suggestions. ?

NANKING CONCERN

Nanking, To-day. Following the clash between Chin- With this end in view, the affair has been referred to Generalese troops at Lukuochiao (Marco Tashiro, General Officer Command-Polo Bridge) Mr. Tung To-nin, De- ing Japanese forces in North China. partmental Secretary of the Chinese Meanwhile the Japanese Embassy Foreign Office, called on the Japan- in Peiping has been barricaded as ese Embassy at 6.30 p.m. yesterday to lodge a verbal, protest against the a precaution.--Reuter:

-Hua Nan.

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