The renewal of hostilities broke up a Sino-Japanese peace conference, which was being held in the house of Gen, Chang Yun-yung, commander of the Hopel Peace Preservation Corps, Railway communication between Peiping and tientsin has been sus pended, while it is announced that the Blue Express will not leave for Shanghai, Meanwhile, to add to the tension in North China, six trainloads of Japanese troops' belonging to the Kwantung Army are reported to have arrived from Mukden at Shanhaikuan, where' the Great Wall runs to the' sea, They disembarked there, but the' amply trains are standing by, Heavy. concentrations Japanese troops along other points on the Great Wall are also reported to have taken place. The Kwantung Army garrisons In nine passes are, is stated, being strongly reinforced, were only allowed to pass after giving assurance that they carried no cameras, visit to Wanping this morning! revealed the walls of the city to be plentifully " shell-searred, notably hear the East Gate, which bore the brunt. of the Japanese cannonade in the Sighting on Thursday and Friday, when about 50 shells fell inside the city, partly wrecking the offices of the local administration, from which the occupants had fled only. fifteen minutes earlier. A police-station and neighbouring wine-shop were also struck, Fragments of shells suggest that the Japanese used guns of a calibre ranging from 37 millimetre to three inches, 'The casualties suffered by the 29th 'Army troops on Thursday and Friday fare given at about 20. killed, 20 seriously wounded, and 50 slightly hurt, "Japanese casualties were' ten killed," including one officer and two N.c.0's" two missing (probably dead), and 22 wounded, including three officers, Reuter,
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