CHINESE TROOPS TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL
(Received 22, 8.45 a.m.) v NANKING, July 21. The so-called Christian general, Feng-Y-Hsiang has been appointed Coni-mander-in-Chief in North China. General Han hui Hu, Governor of Shantung, South of Hopei, has telegraphed to the Governor of Hopei: ' ' Tight to the fmiriln I am with you." Meanwhile, 35.000 Japanese troops, who are destined to reinforee the 20,000 alreadv there, have arrived at Tang Hu and will entrain for Tientsin. The British sloop, H.M.S. Grinisby, has berthed at Tang Ku in order to protect British interests. The Hopei Politieal Couneil has -issued the following statement: "Proving China's desiro for amieable settlement, we have ordered the teinporury withdrawal of the Twenty-ninth Army a third of a mile. Tlie Thirty-seventh Divsion was also witlidrawn from Peiping. The Mayor of Peiping deelared that Japan must now carry out her promise and withdraw. The responsibility for future clashes rests with her, he added.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 5
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