Tientsin, July 11, With fresh reinforcements rushed to the scene of combat from various points, Japanese troops resumed their offensive on the Chinese positions at Lukouchiao at 11 o'clock this morning, according to meagre reports reaching here from the front, The message states that the Japanese troops were attempting to cross.the Yungting River from the east bank.
Clashes between Chinese and Japanese troops, other meagre reports received here state, had also occurred this morning outside the South Gate of Tungchow, seat of the bogus East Hopel_regimé, and at Huangtupo, a small railway station seven kilometres from Tungchow.
A fleet of 33 Japanese army trucks, loaded with large number of troops, ammunition and provisions,—Tett Halkwangsun, where the Japanese barracks are situated, at 5,30 o'clock this morning for Fengtai by the Tlentsin-Peiping highway.
For unknown reasons, however, five of the trucks returned here at 815 O'clock, with the original number of troops aboard,
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