Tientsin, May 10.
An official report received here this afternoon from Liout.-Colonet Koizumi, the Commander of th detachment sent to Toman fro! the Japanese Garrison in Tientsin, state "The parties under my command took chew of the duties of guarding the Conmerelal Area and of keeping Match over the West Gute of the walla city' of Tainan. Immediately" att al fin engineers' corps "of the. Brigade Under "Slsjor-General 'Sotoyama ese Uroyed the doves of the front sate the "city Wall othe wight of May Or" the" Commander "of the rigid Splered me. to. setd reinforcements 'Thereupon, I despatched the ith. Com: fany belonging. to ly" detachment The' ann' Company in full force rushed atthe Cy Wall at 490 tse on the Toth, bat owing tothe narrowness the path there the. Company experien td great difficulty: In entering the wall Southern "troops, which. had. taken their positions. "around the ally furiously Heed on the Jupanese troops, 59 the. Japanese troops simultaneous Ssemienced bombardment, and. anally cupied the front. ate completely. in this battle, one wat killed, 4 wound el seriously' and 4 slightly on the fare missing, of whom 2 are believed to have been murdered.
Later.
'A. message from Tsinanfu states that the Japanese forces lost 17 killed, including two officers, white 117 mien were wounded in last night fighting in the walled city.
Chiang Discussing Question of Future Policy jeneval Chiang Kai-shek is reported to be at Hsuchow conferring with the leaders of the Kuomintang in regard to the future policy of the party. He is also reported to have sent General Ho Cheng-chun to Tsinan to negotiate with the apanese for a provisional agrezment for a settlement of the Tsinan affair and for the cessation of hostilities Reuter.
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