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Japanese Vigorously Attack Outside Great Wall. CHINESE REFUGEE LOOTERS. (Received 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 16. Tangshan is being heavily bombarded. Cement Avorks and a cotton mill have been severely damaged. Miyun is also being bombed. The city, was swept by machine-gun fire with heavy casualties. The Chinese are making preparations to evacuate Tangshan.
A Japanese message from Harbin states that the Chinese Mongol troops at Kalgan, within the province of Chahar, declared their allegiance to Manchukuo, whose officials have already left to take control.
In view of the large numbers of Chinese who are fleeing from Tangshan and looting en route, Japanese sources report that the British manager of the Tangshan mines has decided to suspend operations meantime. The Japanese Legation lias issued a statement that should the Chinese discontinue their provocative acts, the Japanese will quickly return to the Great Wall to resume their regular work of maintaining peace in Manchukuo. "Unless the Chinese Army alters its attitude counter attacks will be kept up," it states.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 7
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