July 22.
Japan's intention to send a punitive" expedition to China has been formally announced in Tokyo. The Central Government of China has confirmed its support of General Sung Cheh-yuan's actions as commander of the troops in Hopel, just as, in a last minute effort to Hecure peace, it agreed to endorse the settlement which he was reported to have made locally with General Kiyoshi Katsuki. The bombing of Langfang by Japanese jacroplanes on July 25 has been taken by the Chinese Government to constitute action which makes it impossible to accept the proposals General Katsuki's ultimata.
Those proposals have, therefore, been rejected by General Sung Cheh-yuan in the name of the Government and operations have been resumed, Chinese troops being reported actually to have advanced and recaptured Langfang, Han-panchen and Fengtai. "Troops under Central Government orders, although apparently not those considered to be General Chiang Kaishek's crack divisions, have moved out of Paotingfu northward in support of General Sung Cheh-yuan, under whose orders they will presumably come. General Chiang Kai-shek, as Generalissimo, will be taking the feld as the supreme commander of China's forces engaged in resisting Japanese move-
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