Show JArAN JAPANESE l LOSE SIXTEEN MN MEN It fl 1 V V r l If Alleged Alleged That Four Soldiers 1 Were Tortured Before Being Killed By Ry AssocIated Press WASHINGTON ASHINGTON W July Sixteen 31 Sixteen en Japanese officers and men and three J Japanese Janese anese policemen were ere killed and seventeen Japanese soldiers more or l Jess s ss s seriously wounded In a clash with Chinese troops at t t JUly 19 according to an official re reo report report re- re o port received by the Japanese embassy embassy embassy em em- bassy here The losses of ot the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese nese were not given The clash was said to have folI 1011 followed fol fol- I 1 lowed an assault on an of the South Manchuria Railway Rahway company company com corn pany by about twenty Chinese solf sol sol- f Hers diers The report said the Chinese government expressed regret over oer the incident and dismissed from office the Chinese commanders commanders' concerned and I reprimanded General Meng Un Yuan governor nor general of ot the province TOKIO REPORT TOKIO Monday londay July 28 A A second official statement on the Incident at Tau Chang places the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese losses at sixteen officers and men killed and eighteen others wounded No previous report of ot the Incident referred to has been received The place mentioned presumably is Kwan- Kwan y y'S S I Cheng Tsa about miles west of Kirin In Manchuria The alleges that four tour Japanese including an officer were tortured before death It is understood that the foreign office has instructed the Japanese minIster minister min min- ister later at Pekin to investigate the circumstances circumstances cir cir- c and take take- steps to obtain satisfaction |