Chinese Refusal to Retire from Protected Area Tokyo, May 10.
An official report received by the War Office to-day appears to con firm press messages regarding the origin of the fighting at Tsinan on May 8.
The report states that, noting an absence of good faith on the part of the Chinese military leaders, the Japanese commander at Tsinan attempted to negotiate with General Hsiung Shih-hui for the Southern forees to disarm, but the latter resisted and 5,000 troops simultane ously attacked the Japanese, whereupon the Japanese forees respond eds" phe Siutborn ores main force from the city-—euter der magazine and swept. the
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