1937-11-08 — Page 1

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VEMBER 8, 1937.

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TAIYUAN REJECTS ULTIMATUM FUSO Y

Foreigners And Non-Combatants

Leave City During Respite

CHAPEI OVER AGAIN STRATEGIC

IN STREETS OF

SHANSI CAPITAL

Peiping, 1.30 p.m. To-day.

All claims to the capture of Taiyuanfu are now admitted by the Japanese Command here to be pre- mature.

WITHDRAWAL PREDICTED

Shanghai, 2 p.m.,

To-day.

TO FIGHT TO

HOLD TAIYUAN

General En

the Suyuan

is commanding

fending Taiyuanfu, now

ly surrounded by the

death

has expressed the determinatio to hold the cit Renter

JAPAN'S REPLY TO BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

The

Tokyo,

handed to Mr. Pirota

Heavy fighting is now proceeding in the streets The belief is growing

of the East here that the Chiese the Foreign Office the communica of the Shansi capital, in the vicinities and North Gates, where operations have resolved Command is now in the tion sent to Japan by the delegates themselves into the fashion of Chapel, with every well placed building used by the Chinese defenders as a machine-gun nest.

It is disclosed that the Japanese endeavoured to secure the surrender of the capital last night, without fighting..

at the Brussels Conference-

It is intimated that a reply will be sent within three or four days.

a refusal to accept the further

process of a new man- loeuvre which will be

marked by a withdrawal invitation to attend is indicated. An to a new defence line.

official

this

be

Although there appears to no variation in the strength and policy. determination of the Chinese re-

continues

fold press that the reply: would

Japan's deci

Own Correspon

the Chinese are severe fighting, defensive, conserving

ations that all energy

ceased and

A party of Japanese soldiers, carrying white sistance to the south of the Soo- flags, went into the city and presented an ultima-chow Creek, where the tum, giving the military commander, General Fu there Tso-yî, an opportunity of surrendering, leaving it counter-att open until 7 a.m. to-day for the General's reply

The ultimatum warned that if compliance were --not intended, all foreigners, missionaries and other- wise, and all non-combatants should leave the city by 7 a.m. this morning, as all persons left within would be treated as combatants.

Fu Tso-yi told the delegation being offered, and the other bluntly that he had no intentioned to

of complying with the terms of

the

atum, but the Japanese a

south gate.

he efuge

withheld until I am.

7pm yesterday and

ands of people reaming

out of the

foreign be towards Pingya

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