Despite these clashes, hope of a peaceful settlement was held out by 'Mr. Denjiro Kato, First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy, In an interview with Reuter this' afternoon.
would be avoided, he said, it Nanking ceased its military preparations, which had aroused Japan He thought that the locat_ situation could be controlled provided the North China authorities observed their obligations, Mr. Kato visited General Chin Teh-chun, the Mayor, this afternoon Ju an endeavour to expedite a settlement—Reuter.
Tientsin In War Garb Tientsin, July 13.
Employees of the South Manchuria Railway have been posted at offices at various points on the railway between Shanhaikuan and Tientsin to supervise the flow of Japanese milltary traMe, which is "pouring into Tientsin from Manchoukuo in a con~ tinual stream.
All night long "Japanese military trains rumbled into the Tientsin East Station, which presents an extra-Jordinarily warlike appearance.
di.30 this morning, 12 troop-trains had arrived, and more were on their way here, Meanwhile a battalion of Japanese troops, with a battery of field-guns, Ig reported to have moved inside the [Great Wall from Kupelkow, and 1s stated to be nearing Peiping.
Trame along the route between the Tientsin East Station and the Japanese Concession was stopped during. the passage of the Japanese rein-foreements to their barracks.
Japanese military, patrols are operating along the railway tracks Between the Central and East sto-are at Fengtai, the railway Peiping-bound trains from Tientsin
Junellon south-west of' Peiping, There are now 32 Japanese aeroplanes in Tientsin, Among the arrivals in Tientsin this morning were 280 Chinese in. Manchoukuo uniform, who belong to. the railway maintenance department the of the SMR. They attracted'a great.
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