The Archive · 1936

Involved in Incidents

Peiping, July 9.

The Japanese Army staged formidable military demonstration in three small tanks, eight transport! trucks full of troops, two six-wheeled rillitary trucks, and' two cars arrived from Fengial, "south of the ancient capital, entered the city through the Southwest Gate, and paraded through the main streets. The caterpillar treads of the tanks tore up several miles of macadamized streets.

The entire cavalcade parked outside the main gate of the Imperial City, while the officers held a tifin party in the Central Park. The visitors eventually departed for Fenglai 3 Photographers anxious to take pictures were roughly handled by the Japanese, although they were in the main streets of the city, far removed from the only foreign-controlled area, namely, the Legation Quarter.

'A'British military oticer in. mull, had an altercation" with Japanese officers, "but the result is not yet known, One Chinese photographer was badly knarked about and his ims torn out of his camera, An American correspondent snapping the parade near the Halamen was seized roughly, his camera was torn from his hands, and the films extracted. The camera then wat

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