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Show JAPANESE START ! TROUBLE WITH CHINESE TROOPS i PEKING, Sunday, Aug. 17. (By The Associated Press.) The oflicial report of the Chinese covernment regarding Ithe clash between tho Japanese ami 'hin.-i soldiers on July 10 at Chang-1 t'liun, Manchuria. U Is said. In govt rc ment circles indicates that the Japanese Japan-ese provoked tho trouble. The Chinese! I report says the fact that the Japanese! soldiers lorced an entry into the Chin-' ese military encampment shows thai they were the aggressors. The Chinese report says that 18 Jap lanese were killed and 17 wounded and 12 Chinese killed and 11 wounded. One tundied Chinese soldiers are missing, 1 but the majority of them Qed and will j return. Tho Japanese embassy at Washington Washing-ton announced that the Chinese ov-I ov-I eminent, as a result of the incident of, ! Chang-Chun, had dismissed from office i three leaders of the Chinese soldiers and had reprimanded the goverror general of Kirin province. The Btatfl-ment Btatfl-ment says that the clash was provoked by tho Chinese, who fired upon the (Japanese. Nineteen Japanese were I killed and 17 wounded seriously. 00 |