Conditions Almost "Normal" in Tientsin: Mopping-Up Process Conditions COMPARATIVE lull prevail Tokyo, Aug. 5. in North China, but the mopping up of small parties of troops of the 29th Army is continuing according to messages received here to-day. A'Tientsin dispatel says that Japanese planes bombarded two Chinese troop-trains moving towards Peiping along the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway on August 4, The Okasaki detachment, it adds, came into contact and routed about eighty Chinese troops near iangsiang at about noon on August 4. No casualties were inflicted on the Japanese, but the Chinese troops are stated to have lost twenty men, thirty rifles and 200 hand-grenades, The Nara detachment, states the Peiping correspondent of the "Asahi Shimbun," has come into contact with and annihilated 250 East. Hopet militiamen believed to have participated in the recent massacre of Japanese and Koreans at Tungcsow.
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