The Japanese group of correspon-Gents were about twenty metres inside the wall watching the passage of the convoy when a sweeping fire was suddenly opened on them, As the hand-grenades began to explode and bullets swept the street, the correspondents ran for cove:
Attempts by Japanese officers to reach the embattled detachment failed as the Chinese Peace Presérvation Corps threw a cordon about 1,000 yards behind the Japanese lines.
Major Ichitaro Kasai. Japanese adviser to the 29th Army, and Capi. Tadasuke Teradaira Chinese language officer, awaited the withdrawal of the Japanese force within this cordon and accompanied it back to ba Domei, Chinese Assertion Peiping, July The Chinese allege that the Japa ese opened fire, put the Japanese say that they did so only after hand grenades had been dropped on them from the guard house above.
The Japanese troops scattered and took refuge in buildings inside and outside the City, and a brisk exchange of rifle and machine-gun fire ensued. The Chinese afterwards brought trench-mortars into action.
The majority of the Japanese troops took cover in a temple inside the City walls, where they were surrounded by Chinese troops and also by about 1,000 Chinese plain-clothes men.
The entire section of the City near the Kwanganmen was cordoned off, and was plunged into darkness.
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