Coe reports of the capture of Fengtai and Langfang from the Japanese caused jubilation throughout the country yesterday.
In the late afternoon a communique of the Tientsi Japanese garrison headquarters denied the Chinese reports, admitting only an attack on Langfang which they reported was repulsed.
Unconfirmed reports from Chinese sources also reported the capture of Tungchow in, East Hopei, a report considered improbable even by Nanking official circles.
Air raids on a big scale were carried out by Japanese, who report the capture of Nanyuan and Hsiyuan as a result. The capture of Shahochen ud the cutting of the Peiping-Si nan Railway were also.reported.
Seaman Sadao Miyazaki, the cause of a local furore on the night of July 24, was yesterday turned over to the Japanese Embassy in Nanking by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Japanese transports were fired on off Tangku.
The Chinese fire was later returned by Japanese.
The evacuation of foreigners from the Peiping area into the Legation Quarter, and the guarding of the Quarter by the for n detachments there was announced.
Official statements were issued both by Tokyo and by the Hopei authorities yesterday.
Major hostilities are considered to have begun.
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