CHINESE ROUTED
Principal Buildings In Tientsin Ablaze HEAVY CASUALTIES Panic-stricken Inhabitants Fleeing The Japanese claim they heavily defeated the Chinese at Tientsin after eight hours’ fighting in the Concession. Scores <>f Japanese planes bombarded and machine-gunned the principal buildings in ttie Chinese city destroying the municipal centre and damaging the Chinese suburbs. .The Nankai University, the central station and the militia headquarters are blazing. There arc thousands of casualties. Panic-stricken Chinese are fleeing to the international concessions.
An Italian soldier and a French soldier were killed while on sentry duty. The firing was so heavy near the Italian concession that guards occupied a large section of the neighbouring city between the concession and the international bridge, which was impassable because of sniping.
The Japanese occupied Tting-chau and Nan-yuan, the latter 'being almost destroyed with a thousand Chinese casualties.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 11
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