THE FAR EAST

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1937, Page 5

THE FAR EAST

JAP-CHIN Q CLASH SERIOUS FRONTIER DANCER* (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). . TOKIO, July 8. According to Japanese ’reports from Peking, a battalion of General Sdnehehyuan’s Twenty-ninth Route Army clashed at midnight, with a battalion of Japanese troops, who were carrying out night manoeuvres in the neighbourhood or Fengtai and both sides have rushed reinforcements to the locality. - A severe engagement is reported to oe progressing. FURTHER FIGHTING. SERIOUS POSITION INVOLVED (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) TIENTSIN, July 8. Chinese refused to withdraw from the bank of Tungtung river, across which they 7 face Japanese forces, who are demonstrating with tanks and infantry, in the streets of Tientsin. At Peiping, martial law lias been declared, and negotiations with Japanese continue, but fighting has been resumed at Fengtai, - where a clash between Chinese and Japanese troops occurred with estimated casualties of Chinese at two hundred, and Japanese ten. The Chinese stated they mistook the Japanese for bandits.