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...clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai Chien-wu, boarded the train, rallied the Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien-wu, no soldier, had no plan of attack. And his enemy was, not the Japanese, but the Nationalist Chinese garrison at Peiping whom the Japanese have demoted to a "Peace Preservation Force...
When Pai's train got near the Yungtingmen Gate, he began shooting, apparently to set off a pre-arranged uprising within the city. This idea fizzled. The Peiping garrison, properly warned, swarmed to the Outer Wall, shut and sandbagged the central gate and answered the attackers' fire. The train ground to a stop, began backing up, backed out into the night. Past midnight it came chugging back, this time spitting bullets from every window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally...
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