Peiping, Sept. 2.
Guerillas kept Japanese troops busy round Peiping last night.
A large body first appeared on the Peiping-Tientsin railway west el Lanfeng, where a sharp engagement lasting several hours took place.
American women and children returning from Peitaiho, the seaside resort near Chinwangtao, described how trains were stopped at Lanfeng and lights put out while rifle and machin gun fire rattled intermittently.
The train in which the Americans travelled from Chinwangtao_ arrived here 12 hours behind schedule.
At three o'clock this morning Japanese troops were hurriedly rushed out of the north gate of Peiping to a point six miles to the north, where a sharp engagement followed with several hundred guerillas, the result of which is still unknown.
The city remains calm despite the fact that firing is audible—Reuter.
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