Furious Battle Raging At Franco-Swiss Frontier Air Proposals for, Fresh Negotiations Refused: Old Walls of City Bases Revealed Agreements Cited as Binding Peiping. July 26.
Paris, July 25. War knocked at the gates ofthe M. Jean Sellier, an amateur French Tientsin, July 26. ancient-capital to-night, as Japanese aviator, was arrested at Pailly to-day N the name of the Imperial Japanese Army, an ultimatum was and Chinese troops met in a bitter and charged with divulging military secrets to Germany, Counter-espion-sent this afternoon to General Sung Cheh-yuan, Chairman of combat at the Kwanganmen, on the western side of the outer wall. age agents are now questioning him. the, Hopei-Charhar Political Council and commander of the 29th The hostilities opened almost to a A search of his home yielded the Army, demanding the withdrawal of the 37th Division from minute four hours after the Chinese names of several German aviators. Sellier claimed the men were his Peiping and its vicinity within a specified time. authorities here received a Japanese The Note, which was presented by Colonel Takuro Matsui, ultimatum, demanding the withdraw-friends, al of the Thirty-Seventh Division Correspondence with the German Chief of the Special Service Section in Peiping, on behalf of Lieut.- units from Peiping and vicinity with-Consul at Brussels was also seized in General Kiyoshi Katsuki, commander-in-chief of the Japanese in the next 48 hours Sellier's home, and aerial photographs forces in North Chinà, demanded that: Heavy casualties were sustained and maps ofthe Italian and Swiss 1. Units of the 37th Division in the Lukouchiao area retire by the Japanese forces in to-might's frontiers, with aerodromes marked. engagement, as a portion of the Ja-In addition, authorities found in his to Changsintien before noon to-morrow, and panese detachment was trapped be-quarters photographie apparatus 2, Other units of the same division inside Peiping and Hsi-tween the inner and the outer walls, manufactured in Germany and rifles, yuan retire to points west of the Yungting river before subjected to a. withering rifle fire, and pistols and other merchandise which noon on Wednesday. showered with hand grenades, they believed Sellier had smuggled The fighting broke out as the out of Germany as a side-line, Immediately after the evacuation of these areas, the ultimatum Japanese unit, returning to Peiping Tt was believed that the questioning added, the whole 37th Division must withdraw to Paotingfu.—ai Sellier might uncover espionage from Fengtai, attempted to enter Reuter, the Kwanganmen at 4 o'clock this centres at Metz and other eastern cities, According to the Domei News afternoon.
The newspaper "Ce Soir" said an Agency the course of evacuation, Entrance Refused espionage ring of 100 agents, from Sung Cheh-yuan tum, was as follows: from Peiping carefully designated by the ultima-Biarritz to Cerbere, was reporting to The Japanese military authorities the Spanish insurgents and to Italy to Hsiyuan; from Hsiyuan to points here claimed that they had the per-and Germany the movements of all west of the river by a route lying mission of the Hopei-Charhar Politi-Orders Army TO north of the Peiping Hankow Rail-French ships and persons to Spain, cal Council to pass through the gates The details of French fortifications Wag? en route to the Japanese barracks at Resist Jo JANESE was pointed out, would signify the Jed, the Japanese unit remained out-Compliance with the ultimatum, it the Embassy. Finding the gates locx-Chinese authorities' intention. to side, while negotiations were re-
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CE prevent an aggravation of the- North opened between the Chinese and Limit of Endurance Reached This morning's "legal attack" by [agreement was reached to lé the China incident, Japanese authorities. Finally, an star scenes from the Wangping and Fengtai areas in North China, Upper pictures sow troops of the ST Division on the racecourse at N.CD.N." Photos,
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