Central Troops Moving Refugees Streaming from Paotingfu Into Settlement (Continued from page 9) vouring to preserve peace must be plain to all observers. On the other hand, Japan has not only failed to withdraw her troops, but continued to send heavy reinforcements into the Peiping-Tientsin area.
"On the night of July 25, Japanese troops made an unprovoked attack on the Chinese garrison at Langfang, during which a large number of Japanese bombing planes were brought into action.
The exodus from Chapei which had been in progress all day yesterday assumed large proporus yesterday evening. For about four hours beginning at 6 p.m. solid streams of refugees flowed down Paoshan Road into North Honan Road and from Dixwell Road and other important thoroughfares. The evacuation quietened down toward midnight, but extreme tension still felt throughout the northern district at an early hour this morning, Impossible Demands "The Japanese presented impossible demo the local Chinese authorities and staged a rapid succession of provocative acts in the outskirts of Peiping.
"All these clearly indicate that the Japanese are bent uran aggravating ihe present crisis, with a view to achieving their sinister designs North China "China has exhausted her efforts for peace and the responsibility Yor future developments in North China rests solely with—Japan."—Central News.
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