Extremely brisk fighting was also witnessed In fast night's clash, accord ing to foreigners living outside the lly, Both sides are reported to have used artillery and machine-guns, while star shells lit the countryside, 'The Aghting ceased at midnight when the Japanese. troops retired. 'They had' advanced along the Wanping-Peiping highway and_also along the Peiping-Hankow Railway. from the general direction of Lukouchiao (Marco Polo Bridge), According to Chinese villagers, the engagement started when the Chinese eaplured a Japanese cannon. Japanese troops from, the west thereupon, engaged about 1,000 Chinese troops }who were strongly entrenched on the Race Course, Reuter's correspondent visited the batllefleld this morning. The Chinese, he found, had evacuated the Race
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