New Britain herald., 1925-06-05
SHANGHAI SCENE OF GRIM STRUGGLE East Meets West for Control of
 District U.S SAILORS ARE GUARDING
Usher Animals to Abattoir With Fixed Bayonets-Americans Are Receiving Better Treatment Than Other Foreigners.

Shanghai. June 5. (AP)--A force of American sailors with bayonetted rifles herding a number of cows down the ancient Nanking road to an abattoir; American women unit ing households when their trusted Chinese servants shuffled away; for phone operators and taking all sorts of jo5s-this was the picture presented in Shanghai today as the celestial city settled down to a seem- ingly grim struggle-the Occident against the Orient-while Chinese strikers attemptedt without outward disorder to disrupt foreign activities in campaign calculated to starve out and drive out foreigners.
 Money changers in the streets re- fused to take foreign bank notes. Chinese banks are closed and the cash supply is disappearing rapidly.
 The strike of Chinese workers continued to spread today. A tense situation loomed in the French con- cession where thousands of students meandered peacefully, wearing con- spicuous mouring bands, while alert policemen and French officers, heav- fly armed, were patrolling the main thoroughfares.
 Many meetings were held across the boundary from the French con- cession, in Chinese territory, but only petty outbreaks were reported.
 Sharp distinctions were empha- seized by Chinese in favoring American firms and homes, al- though all foreigners were disfavor- ed, particularly the Japanese and the British. Those Chinese shops doing business refused the patronage of British customers while favoring 
 Mrs. Milton Purdy, wife of a judge of the United States court here, and the wife of Consul General Cunningham, combined household forces for the emergency today when the servants in their homes left.
 Many of the Chinese servants re- main loyal. Some old servants have remained with their masters despite death threats involving their fami- lies quartered in Chinese territory. The threats have been voiced di- rectly by student canyassers.
 Those foreign firms, hotels and in- stitutions which continue to func- tion are doing so through the aid of volunteer foreign women workers, who have stepped into the places left by the strikers.
 It became known today that a turbulent faction in the Chinese stu dent ranks was striving to effect an- other conflagration by urging the constabulary in Chinese territory to become an armed force supporting the anti-foreign movement. An un- confirmed report says this element is striving to induce General Chaun- Fang to move his troops from Hang chow to Shanghai.
 The means now being used by Chinese to carry on their anti-for- eign campaign continued to spread with increasing rapidity. The entire Chinese police force will be out to- morrow. One-eighth of the force has quit already. Shops in the French concession hitherto unaffect- ed by the disturbances which started last Saturday were closing today.
 The secretary Of the Shanghai council says that during a raid on the strike leaders premises the police secured irrefutable evil dence that Bolshevik money and ac- tivities are behind the present dis tprbances, and further established that the Russians are merely using the Chinese students in their efforts to extend the Moscow program.
 Canton, China. June 5. (AP)- Civil administrators. quartered be- hind prepared Notifications, today expected a serious clash momcntar-
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