PEKING NERVOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 7

PEKING NERVOUS.

JAP. INVASION FEAR. Chinese Forces Steadily Yield Ground. EVACUATIONS REPORTED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) PEKING, May 15. The nervousness regarding the Japanese intentions is rapidly increasing. Many -well-to-do Chinese are leaving Peking in the belief , that a Japanese occupation is imminent. As a precautionary measure the American Legation has advised American women and children to evacuate the Tung-chow mission centre, 13 miles eastward of Peking, in consequence of reports that the Japanese intend occupying the town. In the Kupei-kow region the Japanese reached a point eight miles northward of Miyun, whence the entire civilian population fled.

The Japanese now are advancing on Miyun on the Kupei-kow road, 40 miles from Peking, which has been hurriedly thrown into a posture of defence. Sandbag barricades have been erected ill the principal locations in the city. At Xantien-men the Chinese fortifications have been completely obliterated by artillery lire. There is a large concentration of Chinese at Tongshaw, where gunfire was distinctly audible. General Yuh Sueh-chung, commandant of the Taku-Tientsin area, announces that he will resist to the uttermost. The Japanese captured Shih-hsia, an important Chinese position south of the Kupei-kow Pass.