Eyewitnesses' Graphic: Tale of Slaughter -Pelping, July 31.
'A graphle*story of the mutiny of the Peace Preservation Corps at Tungchow, seat of the East Hopel "autonomous" government, on July 29 was told today by a Chinese eye wit ess, He sald'he was awakened early tu! the morning to hear members of the Peace Preservation Corps and_ the popllnce of the city shouting: "Kil, Kil, KIL" He found that members of thy Corps had surrounded the Japan-och barracks, that a fierce exchange of arliliery, "machine-gun and rifle fire was proceeding, and that Japa! ese and Koreans were being slaughtered.
Later Inthe day, 30 Japanese planes. the eye-witness proceeded, swooped down and bombed the city. for several hours, eventually com-polling the Peace Preservation Corps evacuate, The administration. otices were completely wrecked, he Geclared, One bomb, he alleged, hit the gate-house of "the American school, but the building was otherwise not damaged. Two American Schoolmasters, Messrs, Martin and Hunter, escaped unhurt, 'A motorized Japanese column, ai companied by cavalry, clashed with group of the Tungchow Peace Pre-Servation Cogps between Peiping and Yenching yesterday and, it is claimed, mowed down the Chinese with machine-guns, Several hundreds of members of the Corps are said to have been Killed, Meanwhile, Hslyuon, north-west. of Peiping, which was heavily bombarded by Japanese artillery. yesterday, has fallen' Into the hands of Japanese: troops, 2,000 of whom now occupy the Chinese barracks there, A for~ coign observer yesterday found the! Bodies of 11 Chinese policemen and sov'n elviliang in a field near Haitian, 2 village tothe south of Yenchini University, in the Peiping area, of whom, the observer declared,' had their hands tied behind their backs Some, he said, had been shot, but the majority, he alleged, had been Inacked to death, while two civilians! were decapitated,—Reuter,
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