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CHAOTIC CHINA,

FOREIGNERS KILLED AT

NANKING."

OVERNIGHT. MESSAGES.

Shanghai, Mar. 21: According to a wireless mus ange from Nanking, Chinese troops,

FRIDAY, MARCH 25. 1927

very Hbural lines. Unfortunately It was found. Impossible to pro ceod," it says. "It was very diff cult to get eleven different nations to agree on one course of polley || and there the matter remains.

SUNNING PIRATES.

SENTENCED TO DEATH,

One of the last stages of the "The British Government then

Was reached look more active steps on its own Sunning, piracy behalf and addressed specified pro. yesterday when the two men posals on January 27 to Peking undergoing trial at the Criminal' and Hankow with the object of Sessions were found guilty, and making an arrangement on various sentenced to death. It may be re- questions outstanding. That de called that both men were injured claration of policy and these offers and were unable to take their trial believed to be Cantonese irre- gulars, shelled the hill wear the were productive of some result with the othera owing to their de north gate of the city where the for-at-Tankow-an-arrangement tention in hospital,

Passing sentence of death Mr. foreigners are concentrated, kll-was reached, the terms of which ling a Briton, Doctor Smith, and are still open for Eugene Chen J. R. Wood, the acting Chief wounding H. B. M.'s Consul, Mr.whom this was addressed, to make Justice said he was satisfied with, an arrangement of a similar kind the verdict of the jury as it had Giles and another Briton.

H. M. S. Emerald and the U. &.at Shanghai and we only hope been proved that they were mem- destroyers Noa and Preston shell.it may have that result. At the bers of the pirate gang,

present time the whole of China ed the area around the hill to pets in such a state of disintegration mit of its evacuation after which. the vessels landed armed parties. that I suppose the hands of Mr. Chen are very fully occupied, Further wireless reports state The Government still hope that that another Briton was wounded. some arrangement on the liberal lines they proposed then may be come to."-Router.

British Consulate Lvoted. Undisciplined Cantonese troop! looted the city. The British Col sulate was looted and the Ameri- can Consul and his staff evacuat- ed the U. S. Consulate, taking re- fuge on the hill.

Later.

A number of Americans also were killed at Nanking by the shelling and some were wounded,

American Allitude.

At the afternoon hearing Mr. C. C. Alabaster addressed the jury on behalf of the two prisonere and Mr. H, K. Holmes on behalf of the After the summing up by Crown. His Lordship the jury retired for a short interval, finding both men guilty,

Scar Which Was Not Seen. Washington, Mar. 24. Mr. Alabaster, speaking in re- The failure by the American gard to the first prisoner, said the Consul General at Shanghai to evidence against him was almost participate in discussions with Pelagoweak as it could be. The man Chun-hsi. is not construed as in-had an old sear and yet none of dieting American unwillingness to the many witnesses available to deal with the de facto authorities. the Police had seen it. It was en- It is recalled that on the con- tirely unsafe to convict the man uncorroborated evidence of Mr. Bertram Giles is one of the trary Mr. Kellogg some weeks ago on

The prisoner was best known of H. B. M. Consuls proposed the elimination of Shang-Identification.

man who, in 1926, in China. He was born in Han-hal from the zone of hostilities, known to be kow, son of Prof. H. A. Giles. He but the warring leaders did not had been one of a party of Chinese home as respond. Reuter's American Se troops who had taken anti-piracy came out again from

action and had killed some of the student interpreter in 1895 and vicc.

pirate gang. has served at a number of ports. In 1924 he was Consul General at Canton.

-Heater.

American Reinforcements.

i-

With regard to the second pri

not so The U. S destroyers Phills-soner the evidence was bury, Ford and Perry have been overwhelming as it might appear ordered to Shanghai immediately, at first sight. From the evidence, the man appeared to have been all. over the ship and the more fact of him lying "wounded on the deck may have given the impression that he was one of the pirates.

Mr. Holmes briefly reviewed the evidence, calling the jury's atten- tion to the evidence of Identifica-

A Surprising Victory. Great surprise is expressed at-Reuter. the apparent bloodlessness of the

Reds and White. Southern victory at Nanking, in

Shanghal, Mar. 24. view of the thousands of Northern troops who have been pouring in The decision to call off the for weeks past, estimated to total strike comes as a result of pres- 100,000.

sure by Pai Chung-hat, as men- Most of the foreign naval and tioned yesterday. However, at military exporta had been of opin-noon to-day the mill workers, ion that the city could hold out in- tramway men, railwaymen, post! definitely, but yesterday the North- office employees and Customs erners began a big exodus back men were still out. Only a few across the river before the South-hundred scamen returned." erners entered. This is regardedj What promises to be a big as significant. The explanation le struggle between the moderates that the surrender is the result of and communists has begun at an "arrangement" between-Chiang Shanghai, Well organised, and kai-shek and Chang Tsung-chang. backed as they are by a political bureau, the communists are in a strong position, and it seems doubtful whether Pal Chung-hei will be able to control them.

Place in Flames.

I

tion given by various witnessOS.

of

besides that mentioned previously, was the same as Major Johnson's and Colonel Heywood's. Never- theless, thanks to communist pro- paganda, tens of thousands Chinese to-day regard the British as more or less responsible for the happenings in Chapel-Reuter.

Council's Manifesto Criticised'.

London, Mar. 24.

The Daily News describes the Municipal Council's manifesto as a negative statement by a body which at last became articulate without saying anything in parti-

The blaze of fires which marks the retreat of all. Chinese armies lit the sky last night and this

Following Hankow Methods. morning the Southerners enter- ed the city.

They are already adopting the The Northerners' flight across Hankow methods as regards or the river is described as mest hur-ganisation of demonstrations. ried and very disorderly... Com- Yesterday a huge demonstration cular. The Council must realise. mandeering all the available was whipped up in Chapel with that it cannot keep an army of craft, they fled across the mile the object of adopting anti-Im- nearly 20,000 standing permanent wide and swift-flowing river. perialist" resolutions. These de-ly under arms in order to maintain Looting accompanied the retreat, mand, inter alia, that the Nationa permanently an armed truce. although it was limited by haste. Bat Government obtain the re-

turn of the International Settle ments and French Concession in Shanghai, and the withdrawal of the troops and warships.

If the Council refuses to frame polley or make a conciliatory A Brutal Regime.

move the Treaty Powers and Gor- Foreigners who left Nanking

ernments, whether they like it or not.will be compelled to sink their prior to its fall describe the

diplomatic suspicions, and jealou- Shantung occupation an brutal in

Wild Flights of Fancy.

sies and act directly and together the extreme, with constant looting and raping. The foreigners still The organisers of the demons-Immediate Change not Advisable. in the city are

The Daily Telegraph is of the concentrated intration arranged a procession and

that in view of one apot for protection, and distributed a manifesto and hand- opinion

chaotic circumstances 17 H. M. S. Emerald is standing by bills. The former alleges that the

there is plain The Northerners have similarly the British are really responsible Shanghai retreated from Chinkiang, which for the sacking, burning and mur- wisdom, in the argument ad- the Southerners occupied this ders in Chapel, because had they vanced in the Municipal Council's against . a drastic morning,

not given refuge to the Shantung manifesto The Standard Oil steamer General Pi Shou-chen the latte change in the administration or Meian yesterday was fired on at would have been able to order the the settlement at the present time Kiangying, the first fort up the Shantung troops to keep quiet.. Yangtze, and later was fired on by Northerners at Chinkiang prior to their retreat.

The Meian was forced to re- turn to Shanghai-Renter.

British Policy,

In connexion with this shame. ful and hurtful allegation, the facts are, firstly, that the Settle ment authorities could not refuse

entrance to Pi Shou-chen, who

was unarmed and "retired." They have always admitted unarmed

men.

London, March 24. The official verbatim report of) Secondly, British officials and Lord Desborough's speech in the soldiers, namely the Consul Gen- House of Lords on the 23rd insteral, Six Sidney, Barton, the Com- in reference to China referred at missioner, Major Hilton Joha- the outset to a statement of Brison, Viscount Gort, and Colonel tish policy in China made on De-Heywood, all risked their lives in cember 18 calling other parties to order to bring about a stoppage of the Washington Treaty to combine the sacking of Chapel. The ob with Britain in trying to coma to ject of Sir Sidney Barton's and some arrangement with China on Viscount Gort's mission to Chapel,

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