explained that the gendarmes had merely gone to remove a certain flag affixed to a building by a group of Chinese.
Buildings near the Yungtimen and ihe Kwanganmen have been badly damaged by Japanese shell fire, while the walls are scarred here and there, In contrast with the warlike appearance of Peiping yesterday the usual police patrols were the only armed forces to be seen in the streets this morning. The populati moving about freely, and the gates of the City have been reopened.
Last evening 2000 Chinese soldiers straggled into Peiping from Nanyuan. where General Chao Tenz-yn, Commander of the 132nd Division, is reported to have been killed in action.
The Chinese s in the battle at the cessation of fighting mediate vicinity of Peiping, there is still a strong undercurrent of anxiety over Japanese intentions, which has been intensified by events in Tientsin.
—Reuter.
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Asahi Street, in the top left hand corner above, was the target of Chinese artillery.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.