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Show Un Yuan, governor genera 1 of the province. TOKIO, Monday. July L'8. (By the Associated As-sociated Pres.) A second official statement state-ment on the incident at K wang-Ghang-Tau places the Japanese losses at sixteen six-teen officers and men killed, and eighteen otherB wounded. ( No previous report of the incident referred to has been received. The plate mentioned presumably is Kvan- 'heng-Tsa, 'heng-Tsa, about 100 miles east of Kirin, in Manchuria.) The communique alleges thn t f our Japanese, including an officer, were tortured tor-tured before death. It is understood that the foreign office of-fice has instructed the Japanese minister minis-ter at Peking to Investigate the circumstances circum-stances and take steps to obta i n satisfaction. iGHIHESE TRODPS Sixteen Officers and Men Lose Lives in Clash in Manchuria. WASHINGTON", July SI. Sixteen Japanese officers and men and three Japanese policemen were killed, and seventeen sev-enteen Japanese soldiers more or less seriously wounded in a clash with Chinese Chi-nese troops at Kuar.gcherigku, July 19. according to an official report received by the Japanese embassy here. The losses of the Chinese v.-ere not given. The clash was said to have followed an a ssault on an employee of the Sou h Mar.churia Railway company by about twenty Chinese "idi-rs. The report said tiie Chmesp government expressed recret over the incident and d:srnls.'d from c'f:i o the Chinese commanders concerned, con-cerned, and reprimanded General Meng |