Peiping, Sept. 2
Guerillas kept Japanese troops busy round Peiping Just night.
large body first appeared on the Peiping-Tientsin railway west Lanfeng, where a sharp engagement lasting several hours took place.
American women and children re. turning from Peitatho, the seaside reinwangtao, described how tral stopped at Lanfeng and Aights put out while rifle and machinegun fire rattled intermittently.
The train in which the Americans travelled from Chinwangtao arrived here 12 hours behind schedule 'At three o'clock this morning Jap: Janese troops' were hurriedly rushed Jout of the north gate of: Peiping to a point six miles to the north, wher sharp engagement followed with eral hundred guerillas, the result of which is still unknown, The city remains calm despite the {fact that firing is audible—Reuter.
Guerillay Routed at thing Shanghai, Sept. 4:
Chinese guerillas operating Thsing, south Kiangsu, who had been hiding in the mountains and forcing farmers and merchants to pay them taxes, were routed by Japanese troops, according to reports from that district last night, When news concerning the defeat of the guerillas reached Wusih, the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, 0 group of Ihsing merchants residing in Wusih, headed by Mr, Chen Yung and Mr, Woo Tse-cheng, dispatched a message to the civil governor of Kinngsu province, asking him to send officials to Ihsing {0 provide relief for the inhabitants, 'A reply has been received by Li, Chen and Mr, Woo from the civil governor saying that a district magistrate willie appointed for Thsing shortly and that the Ministry of the Interior has been asked 0 set aside $100,000 for the relief of the suffered in that district.
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