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100,000 TROOPS IN * TRUCE AREA Peiping Communications Cut Off JAPANESE PREPAKE
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(Received 12, 11,30 a,tn.) LONHON, Aug, 11. A joint cable from eorrespondcnts states that Peiping ig still telegraphically and telephonicaUy " isolated. Mails are chaotic and Chinese continue to flee from tlie city. Japanese troops encountered Central Government troops 25 miles to the north-west of Peiping. A heavy Japanese bombardment is proceeding, Tientsin reports state that tbe Japanese notified tbe autborities 4 that they are taking over telegrapb and wireless installation in tbe British and Freneh coneessions, A dispateh received from Tokio regarding fighting between tbe Japanese and Central Government troops states that Hankow is ablaze. A telegram received at Tokio from Shanghai states that 100,000 Chinese soldiers now surround the city and 10,000 Chinese militiamen are stationed within tbe prohibited area covcred by tbe truce a greemont of 1932. Tokio also iearns from. Nanking that the Chinese Government has decided to inStrlict its Consuls at Tokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki to send Chinese residents there liome in sis steamers whieh tbe Chinese Government is cbartering. ...
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 5
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