The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-24
GREAT WALL OF
 CHINA CROSSED
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 pass, which afford the Chinese ex- cellent opportunities for ambush, the Japanese crossed the mountains five miles west of Paintailiang and were described in the communique as chasing the defeated Chinese troops" in disorder.
 Will Make Contact
 The Japanese force was expected to make contact shortly with the Kwantung (Japanese mainland) troops who are driving on Kalgan, north of the Great Wall.
 Japanese sources said five Chinese divisions were engaged in the bat tie, in contrast to less than two japanse divisions.
 Meanwhile, another engagement started 12 miles south of Tientsin, where Japanese troops attacked Chinese forces at Tsinghai. An undetermined number of Japanese troops contacted Chinese forces, presumably those of the central gov- ernment army, after two days Of marching over roads made of quag- mire by rain.
 Tientsin, Aug. 24.-(UP)-Jap- anese authorities today warned for- eigners away from battle areas around Peiping as Japanese wound- ed poured into the city from the front. Though the Japanese .warn- ing was accompanied by tie ex- planation that the Japanese could no longer be responsible for "acci- dents" there was some belief that 1t was an effort to confine news to Japanese official statements. There were persistent reports here that up to 50 Japanese transports were ly- ing off the coasts, with infantry, artillery and cavalry endorsements, some of whom had been landed and sent to the fronts.
 100000 Japanese Troops
 Foreign military experts estimated there were 100000 Japanese troops in the north including these, and the new troops achievements ar- rived near Shanghai are estimated to total 60,000. Most of the Jap- anese wounded arriving at Peiping were from the Nankow Mountain pass sector northwest of the city. Though minor casualties were being sent on to Tientsin for treatment, the big Japanese hospital at Peip- ing was so crowded that soldiers posted notices that civilians could not be treated. A Chinese observer who made Q personal count at one of the city gates reported that more than 400 wounded Japanese were taken into Peiping by that one en- trance Sunday.
 Expected Battles
 Activity southwest of Peiping was increasing. Expected battles there and south of Tientsin had not yet developed in real force. f.
 But foreign military observers got the impression that the Chinese were putting much strength in fianking movements east and west of Lianghsiang, which is IS miles southwest of Peiping, as well as in the neighborhood of Mentoukou, ie miles west of Peiping.
 Despite Japanese statements that there was little activity in those areas, artillery, airplane bomb, mas chine gun and rife fire was audible in Peiping from west and southwest of the ctiy, experts who heard 1t increasing in intensity, expressed be- lief that 1t was guerilla fighting which was increasing to the battle stage gradually.
 WILLY JAPANESE COMMANDS
 Shanghai, Aug. 24-(UP)-oen Iwane Matsui, Q tough and willy vet eran, took supreme command of the combined Japanese army and navy forces in the Shanghai area today.
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