CHINESE WITHDRAW
“JAPAN MUST NOW ACT.” RESPONSIBILITY PLACED. PEACE HOPED FOR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NANKING, July 21. The Hopei Council, in a statement, declares: “This province’s,and China’s desire for an amicable settlement is shown by the fact that we have ordered the temporary withdrawal of the Twenty Ninth Army a third of a mile. The Thirty-Seventh Division , has also been withdrawn from Pekin.” The Mayor of Pekin declared that Japan must now carry out her promise to withdraw and the responsibility for future clashes rests with her.
“FIGHT TO THE FINISH.” SHANTUNG GOVERNOR’S HOPES. NANKING, July 20. The so-called Christian General Feng Y.u-hsiang has been appointed Com-mander-in Chief of North China. General Han Fu-ihu, Governor of the Shantung province south of Hopei, telegraphed to the Governor of Hopei. “Fight to the finish. I am with you. Meanwhile 35,000 Japanese troops, destined, to reinforce the 20.000 m Situ, arrived at Tangku and will entrain for Tientsin. The British sloop Grimsby is berthed at Tangku in order to protect British interests.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 9
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