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Show NEW FRICTION FACES PEIPIIIG SHANGHAI, July 24 (INS) Abduetiea and possible murder of s Japanese sailor la a street brawl hero today aroused fears of a new Bine-Japs neae outbreak. out-break. PEIPING, Jury 24 (INS) A new cause for friction burst suddenly on the north China scene today Just - as a measure of tranquillity In the Sino-Japanese dispute appeared to hare been reached. Japanese military officials. In a conference with General Sung Cheh-yuan, Cheh-yuan, military leader of the Hope!-Chahar Hope!-Chahar regime, warned that unless all units of the Thirty-seventh division divi-sion of the Chinese Twenty-ninth route army leave the Pelping area the Japanese will "commence operations." oper-ations." Large sections of the Thirty-seventh Thirty-seventh division, regarded as anti-Japanese anti-Japanese by Japanese officiate here, already have departed by train for a point some 220 miles to the south. They have been replaced at the Chinese garrison by members of the "more friendly" 132nd division. But Japanese officials insisted that trouble will begin unless 1000 members of the Thirty-seventh division divi-sion within the Peiping walls and 5000 more at the Haiyuna barracks, five miles la the west resume their withdrawals at ones. Attitude Is Truculent Japanese operationa, it was stated, would be directed specifically against these troops. Members of the Thirty-seventh division have assumed a truculent attitude throughout the Sino-Japanese crisis, insisting that if north China offi- dale accepted a humiliating agreement agree-ment with the Japanese they would rise up and overthrow their leaders. The Japanese declared drastic j measures might even be taken j without further warning after the time limit set for final departure j of the troops expires, unless they i have retired by then. Chinese here regarded the Japanese Japa-nese warning as a virtual, ultimatum. Possibility of a serious international interna-tional incident arising , from any Japaneae attack was seen when a Japanese spokesman informed International In-ternational Newa Service that the fact the Chineae barracks here are within a few hundred yards of the American Yenching university would not deter Japanese aerial and other military operations. Situation Held Black The preaence of the Nanking governments gov-ernments vice chief of staff. General Gen-eral Haiu Ping, and a general stiffening stif-fening of the Chinese attitude against the Japanese, caused the spokesman to describe the situation as "very black." Ths new crisis arose at a time when It looked as if some peaceful "face-saving" settlement might be at hand, but tha picture changed within a few hours. Meanwhile, neutral observers Informed In-formed International Newa Service that they had confirmed reports that 16 Chineae divisions, sent north by the Nanking government, are now within Hopel province. Unconfirmed reports claimed an additional five Chinese divisions ' also were within the province, in direct defiance of Japaneae de- 1 man da. TOKIO, July 24 (INS) Continued Japanese military mobilization in the face of relaxation of the north China crisis brought predictions from informed quarters today that the present lull in ths Peiping-Tlentsln Peiping-Tlentsln area may presage an ever greater storm. Qualified observers, watching continued con-tinued Intense Japanese activity, expressed belief the present return to "normal" conditions in north China is merely superficial, and that the dispute Is by no means a closed Issue. Diplomatic circles here openly expressed ex-pressed wonderment regarding the purpose of the Japanese program, which Included continued mobilization mobiliza-tion and calling to the colon of aviation, engineering and mechanical mechan-ical reservists. Some diplomats told, In talking to International News Service, they expected even more momentous news flashes would be shooting across the ocean as soon as the Japanese program developed and hinted the dispute with China may take an even more serious turn than In the past few weeks. |