GENERAL CABLES
FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA
FIFTY CHINESE KILLED
JAPANESE RESIDENTS THREATENED. ■
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIftIGHT.) (AOSTRALIAN-^V ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) TOKIO, 16th August. Official: Fifty Chinese were killed ia the affray at Cheng Chia Tung, neap Mukden, when the Japanese garrison was suddenly attacked by Chinese tseopi. (Received August 17, 8.15 *,5>J .(RIOTER'S TELEGRAM.) TOKIO, 16th August. Sensational details have been received of the Cheng Chia Tung affray. Chinese soldiers assaulted a Japanese, whereupon, the only Japanese policeman in. Cheng Chia Tung went to the barracks and remonstrated. He was shot and killed by a Chinese soldier. Subsequently, a. squad of Japanese troops approached the barracks and the Chinese fired, wounding seventeen. The newspapers assert that Chinese mobs are threatening a hundred Japanese residents in Cheng Chia Tung.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 7
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126GENERAL CABLES Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 7
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