Responsibility for the protection of the Peiping-Liaoning Railway line and Japanese military telephone lines was placed by the Japanese Army tonday on the Chinese villages along these arteries of communication.
Visibly irritated by the frequent tampering with the railway and (éle~ here lines, the Japanese military €ommand proclaimed that all persons caught in activities designed to cripple communication would be shot on the spot, "It the culprit cannot be found, the, proclamation read,' it may be~ come unavoidable for' the Japanese Army {o subject houses in the vicini~ ty of the spot where the interruption took place to an aerial bombing."
"Therefore, by protecting the tel phone and railway lines and avoiding raids by bandits, the inhabitants will save themselves' from calamity," the
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