Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1937, Page 10

SHAM FIGHT REAL, CHINESE DECLARE Japanese Suddenly Began to Use Real Bullets, A. P. Man Told. When guns spoke out again today in China, J. D. White, the Asso- ciated Press Peiping staff corre- spondent, was on the spot. Here White, who has been through most of the Sino-Japanese tension in the area for the last four years, tells his own story. BY J. D. WHITE., PEIPING, China, July 8.—Terrified Chinese soldiers and police told me today—through a crack in the gate of the tiny, walled garrison city of ‘Wanpinghsien—how they believed the new Sino-Japanese trouble began. Bullets were whistling overhead while we talked. ‘The soldiers said the fighting started about 11 p.m. yesterday. Japanese troops, supposedly making a sham “war game” attack against the marble Marco Polo Bridge and the city of ‘Wanpinghsien, suddenly stopped using blank cartridges, they said, and loaded their rifies with real bullets. This morning Japanese troops from the Fengtai garrison near Peiping were holding the historic bridge, 10 miles west of the ancient dragon capital of Pelping Chinese Sneak Across. But at this minute, 6:35 p.m, the bridge is deserted except for Chinese eoldiers I can see sneaking across un- der its marble balustrade carrying “potato masher” hand grenades. Re- Inforcements also can be observed, moving cautiously westward toward the besieged garrison of Wanpinghsien. It is evident now that the Japanese have encountered much stiffer resist- ance than might have been expected earlier. i A steady stream of bullets is singing overhead. I can hear them ping and ricochet off the stone embankments along the river. “No man’s land” is the river bed. From my cover under the city's walls I can see the bodies of two Chinese saldiers who were killed by Japanese machine gun fire last night. Shells Smash Town. Now Wanpinghsien's gates are closed and heavily sandbagged after a four-hour artillery bombardment, lasting from 5 am. to 9 am. My in- formants behind Wanpinghsien’s ram- parts said scores of Chinese soldiers and more than a dozen civilians were killed. wrecked. No official check-up of the casualties and destruction has been eompiled yet, however. Peasants in this neighborhood are frightened. They told me they have watched this situation brewing a long time, and do not know to what it | will lead. ‘They told how Japanese troops have maneuvered continually in this dis- trict for more than a year. They told how they had watched cavalry bri- gades and heavy, motorized artillery troops trample down their erops, often dragging guns across the unfenced flelds. Japanese Won't Pay. They said there was nothing they eould do except hope. The Japanese never offered to pay for the damage. Official sources tell me the Chinese etill are willing to negotiate a fair and reasonable settlement. But if the Japanese refuse to confer again or no agreement can be reached, the Chinese intend to fight. China (Continued From First Page.) troops attempted to capture the marble bridge across the Yingting River. After a brief skirmish there, the Chinese withdrew into Wanpinghsien, which the Japanese brought under artillery fire at dawn. Japanese sources denied Wanpingh- sien had been bombarded and ac- cused the Chinese of starting the trou- ble. Maj. Takeo Imai, assistant Jap- anese military attache, said Chinese troops had fired on maneuvering Jap- &nese troops at 11 p.m. Wednesday. He addad the Japanese halted their maneuvers and concentrated to await developments at midnight. At 5 am,, he continued, the Chinese again opened fire, and the Japanese were forced to take self-defense measures. Scores of Chinese soldiers and a Japanese officer were reported killed and several non-commissioned Jap- anese officers and soldiers were wounded. Japanese Take Bridge. ‘Then the Japanese captured the Marco Polo Bridge and the Pelping-to- Hankow railway line. Resumption of the fighting after expiration of an hour's truce for dis- cussions of the first skirmish between Japanese and Chinese forces came at 11 am. today. Heavy firing from the vicinity of the bridge of Marco Polo was clearly audible here. It was understood the Japanese had gerved an ultimatum on Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan's troops, giving them an hour to surrender, and that the siege of the walled city where the Chinese established their main positions was renewed when the grace expired. During the interval, Chinese rein- forcements were rushed up from Changsintien to the west .into posi- tions facing the Japanese across the Ying-Ting River. Official Chinese here declared they intend to fight if the Japanese are unwilling to negotiate & reasonable settlement of this crisis in Sino-Japanese affairs. Attackers Have Scant Cever. ‘The fighting stopped again at 2 p.m. as abruptly as it had started. The correspondent, of the Domei (Japanase) News Agency gave the fol- lowing report of the battle: 'The Japanese moving a EDUCATIONAL. o L SUCCESS &= EASIER ‘When you are BOYD Trained. Beginners’ :nd Review Courses in Stenography, Book- eeping, Caculating Machines. New Classes NOW Forming. Start NOW, BOYD SCHOOL (Est. 20 Yrs. ' 1333 F 8i NAt. 2338, OPPORTUNITY Register Now for the 8 Weeks! Intensive Course Beginning July 12 Chorthand and Typewriting The Temple School 1420 K Street N.W. st the Many houses, they said, were | o Missing ILL MdTHEl ASKS GIRL'S RETURN. MISS HELEN SAMS, For whom police began a search yesterday at the re- quest of her father, Edward B. Sams of Lerington, Ky. Exz- filaining the 19-year-old girl had come here Memorial day in the hope of obtaining work as a magazine illustrator, Sams said her mother {s ill and wants her to return home. When last heard from in a letter dated June 2, the girl said she was living in a room- ing house “near a park with fountains. e P Chinese entrenched before their bar- racks fought under difficulties. ' Ex- Posed to a blazing sun beating down mercilessly on the shadeless Hopeh Plain, the Japanese units remained in full view of their opponents. “Supplies of water, food and am- munition were constantly raked by Chinese machine gun and rifle fire frem the advantageous positions held by the Chinese behind the trees along the left bank of the Ying-Ting River.” From Tientsin heavy reinforcements were ordered today to advance to the aid of the Japanese. Forty-one trucks loaded with Japa- nese troops were dispatched by the high command to Peiping, followed soon by 14 more. Eight heavy field guns and 12 tanks also started the 75-mile trip to the battle fleld. 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The lines pass directly through the zone of hos- tilities and have been the object of some of the heaviest fighting. (The Tokio correspondent of the As~ sociated Press reported after tele- graphing the Shanghai bureau of the Associated Press this morning that only fragmentary dispatches were reaching Shanghai on the North China fighting, indicating a strict cen~ sorship had been established.) Chinese government officials in Nan~ king said they were virtually in com- plete ignorance of the Peiping inci~ dent. They declared they knew only that “something grave has happened. ‘We have no details.” Tokio's Envoy on Way. The Japanese Ambassador to China, Bhigeru Kawagoe, is at present en route to Peiping for a “diplomatic survey” ofy North Chin Nanking YOU BET I'L HAVE ANOTHER TURNOVER. THEY'RE SWELL DON'T YOU ui L 175 S0 MUCH CREAMIER i —GIVES SUCH LIGHT CAKES, FLAKY PASTRY MARVELOUS FOR FRYING, M New! Delicious! Easy to make ": with this new shortening . that's so much creamier! 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