the conclusion of the agreement i headquarters of the Japanese forces in North China, Chinese soldiers at Fengtai attacked the horse of a Japanese officer and a hospital orderly as a Japanese battalion, quartered in the junction town, was returning from manquvres. The Japanese force immediately took up combat positions. The attack is reported to have taker place on the road in front of tha Chinese barracks.
Negotiations for a peaceful settlnment of the affair are now under way, the announcement further said, remarking that the Chinese authorities had admitted that they were in the wrong. Should the Chinese troops involved in the altair be withdrawn from Fengtai at once, a staff officer said, the case probably will be quietly
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