A similar statement, released by the Japanese Embassy in Paris yesterday, explained how Japanese troops were obliged on July 19 and 20 to reply to lively gunfire from the Chinese forces at Lukouchiao, Papaoshan, and Wulitien, near Peiping.
The Japanese, says the document, which was published simultaneously With a similar explanation in London, confined themselves to counter-bombardment and did not make a single infantry attack. Moreover, they dropped handbills over the areas affected before the retort, telling the population to keep under cover—Havas,
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