Peiping, July 11 Following renewed fighting yester-Jday, the occupation of the Wanping area was completed by the Japanese forces during the night almost as far jas the gates of Peiping. 'The Chinese cops have again withdrawn across the "Yungting River, west of the walled city of Wanping, which is now garrisoned once again' only by Chinese militiamen, who have been allowed by the Japanese to continue their duties, Japanese troops now control the railway to the east and north of Wanping as far as the river bank. They also control the road to Peiping, and all trame is being challenged and inspected by Japanese posts, The Chinese railway authorities reported last night that two Japanese troop trains "had passed through Tientsin and arrived at Fengtai, where the detachments moved off in different directions as though to encircle Peiping. The trains, they added, were laden" with " tanks, trmotired cars, field pieces and machine guns, About 100 troops are reported to have appeared near Shihchingshan, the site of Peiping's electric power. station, about ten miles north-west of the city.
Fresh Shelling morning at Lungwangmiao (Dragon Kings' Temple), but ceased at about Sve am. At 645 p.m, with the settlement only a few hours old, the jew commander-in-chief of ' the Japanese garrison in North China, [Lieutenant-General Kiyoshi Katsuki, arrived in Tientsin from Japan, He had made the journey from Tokyo in a triple motored Fokker Jseroplane, leaving immediately on his appointment to succeed Lieutenant-General Tashiro, who has had to resign because of heart trouble.
Twelve Japanese aeroplanes, nine which had come from Chinchow and two from Fengtai, arrived at the Japanese aerodrome earlier in the afternoon. The machines from Fengtai carried Major-General Hashimore, Chief-of-Staff of the Japanese!
Press correspondents who visited Wanping by motor-car this morning, were stopped half a dozen times on their way there, 'The walls of the city show traces of the fresh shelling to which it was subjected yesterday evening, but most of the fighting, ocjeurred at Lungwangmlao. (Dragon 'Kings' Temple), north of Wangping.
It is learned that Mr. Wang Lengchal, the Magistrate of Wanping Hsien, was taken to hospital yester~ day evening in a state of collapse after three sleepless days and nights at his post, during which he narrow-escaped death from Japanese shell-
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