Lugou Bridge Incident 78 years on
Tony
2015-07-06 18:52:32
On the night of July 7, 1937, Japanese troops stationed near Lugou Bridge in the southwest of Beijing demanded entry to nearby Wanping county on the pretext of searching for a missing soldier. The Chinese military rejected the order and the Japanese bombed the county seat and Lugou Bridge. Historians agree that the attack signaled the beginning of Japan's full-scale invasion of China, though Japan had invaded the Northeast in September 1931. Tuesday marks the 78th anniversary of the beginning of China's eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
(Students from No 1 and No 2 Lugou Bridge Primary School honor anti-Japanese heroics at the memorial sculpture garden of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Beijing’s Fengtai district)
(Students from No 1 and No 2 Lugou Bridge Primary School honor anti-Japanese heroics at the memorial sculpture garden of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Beijing’s Fengtai district)