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Show Fight Near Tientsen On; Japanese Vessels Rushing on Shanghai (Bulletin) . TIENTSIN. Thursday. .Aug.. 12 (U.R) Fighting was under un-der way in the Tientsin area again today. British and French authorities rushed guards to barri-j cades around their concessions, following an outburst of fir- L'ing shortly before midnight. The fighting appeared to be about two miles outside the city, in the direction di-rection of the Race Court, near which the U. S. 15th Infantry regiment has its barracks. Copyright 1937 by United Press JAPANESE ARMY HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, CHANGPING, NORTH CHINA, Aug. 11 (U.B) The imperial Japanese army today launched a smashing attack on strong Chinese forces defending the historic Nankow Pass through which the Peiping-Suiyuan railway rail-way leads from the flat plains of north China into the mountains along the great wall. Nankow In Flames The city of Nankow with Its railroad yards, was in flames, but had not been occupied. Japanese said, however, thai they had captured Chinese positions posi-tions fronting the pass and in the immediate outskirts of the city despite de-spite stiff Chinese .resistance. Chinese were entrenched across the rocky bed of the Sha river, vwhich flows down from Mongolia Mon-golia throug'h the pass, and were astride the railway. Control of the pass traditionally involves control of the great interior in-terior provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan from which the last Japanese Jap-anese were driven last month by veteran Chinese divisions commanded com-manded by Gen. Fu Tso-Yi and Gen. Tan En-Po. Meanwhile, a Japanese cruiser and destroyer, vanguard of a battle bat-tle fleet, arrived with reinforcements reinforce-ments at Shang'hai after a race at fuLl speed across the China Sea from Japan. Eighteen more warships, loaded with bluejackets, were expected at any hour, Japanese sources said. Japanese informants said that navy authorities here awaited only the arrival of the main body of their reinforcements to hand the Chinese a series of stringent demands, de-mands, probably in ultimatum form, based on the killing of a Japanese, navy officer and a seaman sea-man in a fight near the Chinese airdrome in the Hungjao suburb. Copyright 1937 by United Press SHANGHAI, Thursday, Aug. 12 (U.E) China toc-ay refused immediately im-mediately to accept' a Japanese demand that her armed forces be withdrawn 12 miles from Shanghai Shang-hai and defied a large Japanese naval landing force and more than 20 Japanese warships massed in the Whangpoo river and off the citys down-river port, Woosung. |