ANTRAL Government troops are reported moving up from Paotingfa to Changshientien, near the entrenched Japanese forces along the Peiping-Hankow Railway.
The Nanking Foreign Office issued a statement last night virtually abandoning all furíher hopes for peace and throwing the responsibility for any eventualities on the Japanese.
Japanese decisions to take "punitive action" in North China following outbreaks of the past few days were ans nounced in the special session of the Diet in Tokyo yesterday by General Gen Sugiyama, Minister of War.
Japanese reinforcements, indult A further thirty war planes, continued to pour into Tientsin yesterday.
All telegraph and telephone lines from Peiping to the outside world, save one to Tientsin, are out of operation.
Peiping Japanese residents have been evacuated from their homes and shops throughout the city to the Legation Quarter.
Sporadic fighting broke out yesterday near Nanyuan, The Chinese garrison in Tungchow, East Hopei, was decimated, with a loss of 400 to 500 men, when they refused to disarm.
Japanese censors, backed by gendarmes with fixed bay-oners, have again taken over censorship at the Tientsin post office, despite protests by the postal authorities.
Phe heaviest exodus of the last few days was noted all last night from Chapei into the Settlement and the French Otherwise Shanghai remained quiet through the day and night.
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