Nanking, Aug. 2.
Thirty Japanese planes took off from Tientsin for, an unknown des ination this morning. One of them appeared over Shihchiachuang to-day.
Although hostilities at the outskirts of Tientsin have ceased, martial law atill being rigidly enforced ju the: foreign concessions there.
The populace in Tientsin is facing an neue shortage of foodstuffs, and relief measures are eagerly awaited.
Chinese residents in the Japanese Concession and in the Hopei District, who had been lucky enough to have escaped death during the. Japanese eral bombardment during the past few days, have been forced to hoist Jepanete fags, reports received here slate.
Word has also been received here from Piping that students and faculty members and their families at Tsinghua University have safely moved into the city, The Ministry of Education has 30 received a telegram from the Peiping National University reporting the safely of its students and faculty members.—Central News.
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