BEIJING: It was all quiet yesterday at the historic Lugou Qiao or Marco Polo bridge, the mute witness to the July 7, 1937 shooting incident that triggered the Japanese invasion of China during World War II.
Small groups of tourists milled around the stone bridge built in 1189 spanning the Yongding river just outside the Wanpeng walled city to the south-west of here.
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