It is greatly to be regretted that a clash occurred between the Chinese and Japanese troops at Langfang on the night of July 25th through the wanton firing by your troops on a Japanese detachment sent to secure the communication line. The fresh outbreak is entirely due to lack of sincerity in fulfilling the terms of the agreements concluded with the Japanese military authorities and also to the failure in modifying the provocative attitude on the part of Chinese troops.
If your Army authorities still intend to prevent aggravation of the situation, you are hereby requested that the troops of the 37th Division near Wanping and Papaoshan be withdrawn by noon tomorrow to Changsintien on the Peiping-Hankow Railway; that all troops of the said division immediately leave the walled city of Peiping; that these troops, together with those of the 37th Division stationed at Siyüan, a short distance northwest of Peiping, be moved to points west of the Yungting River by noon, July 28th, via the region north of the Peiping-Hankow railway line, and that these troops be then steadily transported in the direction of Paotingfu without interruption.
If these requests are not complied with the Japanese troops will be constrained to think that you have no sincerity in observing the agreements and, with regret, will have to take free action. Your army must bear all responsibility for the consequences in such an eventuality.