Tokyo, Dec. 9.
According to reports received here from Tientsin, a Japanese ai moured train was returning Shanhaikuan on the night of December. 7, after attacking a large force of "bandits" at the Chienwei railway, station, on the Mukden-Shanhaikuan Railway, when ma-Jchine-gun fire was opened upon it by the 9th Independent Brigade, which is under the command of General Ho Chu-kuo.
'The Japanese version of the affair states that the armoured train re-[turned the fire and repulsed the at-Htacking force but the "main body 1 Ho Chu-kuo's troops con-ities in their barracks,' nese concentrated fire upon them and General Ho thereupon sued for peace—Reuter.
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