Nanking, July 19.
The Chinese Aide Memoire may and may not constitute the Chinese reply to the Japanese memorandum ci July 17, Hidaka revealed this evening.
Questioned by the Japanese charge d'Affaires as to whether or not the aide-memoirs constituted an answer o the Japanese memorandum, handed Dr, Wang Chur -hui. Chinese Foreign Minister, on Saturday, Mr. T. Tao-ning of the Waichiaopu was joted by Mr. Hidaka as having said "I do not know. I was only directed Dr. Wang to deliver this aide empire."
Mr. Hidaka thereupon informed the Chinese official that he would accept Tientsin, July 19.
Japanese military authorities here that a Japanese aeroplane had fired on p: senger trains on the Peiping-Hankow railway.
They admitted, however, that Lieut. lori Sakai, a military observer, had returned the fire" from Chinese military trains in southern Hopei.
While flying over four military trains, moving north in the vicinity of Shunteh, about 350 kilometres south of Peiping, yesterday noon, It. Sakai said in his report, he puffs of white smoke rising from the ears.
Hearing no sound, he continued to circle at an altitude of-about 700 metres, He then discovered that the wings of his machine were being peppered with shot and opened fire on the train. the document, regarding it as a reply "But I added that if the Chinese government had any additional communication to make, it would h to be done to-night," Mr. Hidaka the Japanese press, The Japanese official added that he had "warned" Mr. Tung that the situation had entered "a e sta where anything may happen."—Dom. Tokyo, July 19.
The Tokyo "Nichi Nichi" reported here to-day that Nanking's reply to the Japanese note presented to t Chinese Foreign Office y unsatisfactory. Details of reply were not disclosed. Japanese officials ore still awaiting a formal reply, the Pewspaper reported, The Foreign Minister, My, Koki Hirota, to-day reported to the Emperor on the North China situation, United Press The officer added that he saw a number of men fall off the train, but Lukouchiao Affair Not Settled remarked that he was not certain whether they were hit by bullets or were seeking to escape his fire.
Over Yuanshin, about 50 kilometres further' north, the Japanese officer declared, he was again fired upon from a moving train. Although the size of the smoke puffs appeared to be larger, he did not know whether machine-guns or anti-aircraft guns were used.
That the train in the affrays were military convoys was "conclusively proved" by photographs showing that they carried men and hi s and ammunition, the Japanese military headquarters here id.
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