Full Details of Kwanganmen Clash: Two Newspaper Men Wounded: Treachery Alleged Peiping, July 27. A truce was concluded between the embattled Chinese guard at Kwan-|. gunmen and Japanese reinforcements for the Embdssy guard early this morning.
The latter, who succeeded in force ing the inner gate at Kwanganmen, withdrew from their hastily-dug trenches in fields 200 metres inside the walls of the ancient capital at 1 o'clock this morning, and proceeded to the Embassy. guard barracks.
The timely intervention of Col. Chou Yin-vich, staff officer of the 29th Army, narrowly averted the complete annihilation of the Japanese detachment which was about 300 men strong.
Japanese losses in the six-hour combat were two dead and four wounded. Three Japanese newspaper Teporters and photographers were wounded, one of them seriously.
Lieut-Col Ryozo Sakurai, Japanese advisor to the 29th Army, who was at Kwanganmen to supervise the entry of the Japanese reinforcements, was hit by a bullet in the right thigh while attempting to signal the Chinese forces to cease fire, Painfully wounded, he jumped from height of ten yards, injuring his right foot. A Mr. Kawamura, Japanese interpreter wh8 had accompanied Col. Sakurai was shot and killed as he attempted to follow his chief.
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