JAPANESE RETIRE BEFORE SUPERIOR NUMBERS
(Received 14, 8.45 a.m.) PEKING, July 13. Fighting broke out this morning alinost under tio walla of the eity and , two shells burst over the city wall. It was hoped yesterday that the fighting was over when a truce was made, but at nightfall the Chinese captured a Japanese gun in the vicinity of Tsai Chen Miao whereupon the Japanese to the westward engaged about a thousand Chinese strongly en. trenched around the international racecourse at Paomanchang. Botb side used artillery, machine-guns, star shells and Verey lights. The engagemcnt was broken off by the Japanese returning to Wangping. The clash was resumed this morning when 500 Japanese accompanied by four tanhs and araionred ears appeared on the railway between Peking and Fengtai and came into collision with the Chinese. The fighting drew rapidly nearer Peking until it reached the railway hridge just outside the , south gate. Traffic in the south section of the city was stopped and the populaco were confined to their houses. The fighting ceased at 12.45 when the Japanese moved in the direction of . Fengtai. The Chinese charged the Japanese with their traditional big swords and forccd the retirement by superiority of •uinbers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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