Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-16
Soviet Mission Searched.

Soviet Mission Searched.
A dispatch from Hardin yesterday
said Chinese police officials surround
ed and searched the Soviet CONNER.
cial mission there, but found no arms
or Communist literature Soviet
officials were authority for the state.
ment that the police later signed a
document admitting that the search
had been made without official per-
Chang Tso-Lin is the moving factor
behind the Ankuochun, or allied
northern armies, which are fighting
the Cantonese in central China. The
Soviet recently delivered two sharp
notes to the Picking government, with
which the Ankuochun Is allied, pro-
testing against the seizure of a
steamer and the arrest of number
of Soviet couriers.
Capture of Pengpu Reported.
PEKING, March Is R.-The Kuo.
mintang press claims that the Nation.
alists have captured Pengpu. There
is no confirmation of the claim and
competent observers of the situation
give it no credence. If. however, il
should prove true, it would mean the
cutting of the Tientsin-Pukow Rail
way, which would be a disaster for
Gen. Chang Tsun- Chang, the Shan
tungese defender of Shanghai.
Agitators Busy i'm Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, March 16 R.-One
hundred and fifty specially picked and
trained agitators, who arrived here
in patches from Hankow, apparently
have completely won the good graces
of the local labor unions. They are
said TO be conducting a campaign of
intimidation and murder, with the oh.
ject of insuring a solid and prompt
response for a general strike when
the call is issued.
The nearest translation of the Chi.
nese description OF these agitators is
expert intimidators. Under their
direction, labor unrest in Shanghai is
increasing daily. Their chief objection
is so to work on their fellow coun.
trymens fear of personal injury or in
jury to their families as to create
terrorism throughout the ranks of
labor and force solidarity when a
strike call is issued
For many days there has been an
average of one murder daily in
Shanghai of foreman or some other
leader among the workers who op-
posed the last strike. None of the
| assassins has been apprehended.
Cndeterred by Police.
While the loyalty of the Chinese
| police is unquestioned. observers saw
| the men would be more than human
| If the present condition did not deter
them from prosecuting their investi-
cations OF these crimes with their
| customary zeal.
Today, as yesterday, determined
efforts were made to disorganize
traffic on the Shanghai Marking
| railway The train control telephone
system was tempered with and sew
| eral signal wires were cut. Yester-
day intimidators forced 30 engi
| necrs and firemen and the whole
| locomotive staff of the Shanghai
| South Station TO desert. The strike
| at Woosung is continuing.
Fighting Near Shanghai.
Heavy fighting is reported west
and northwest of Shanghai. where the
Cantonese are driving toward the rail
way which connects Chang Tsung
chang with his base, Tsin-Anfu. in
Shantung Province.
| Telegraphic communication between
| Marking and Pengpu, Anhwei Prov.
ince, is interrupted. but responsible
! quarters do not believe Pengpu has
! been captured by the southerners, as
claimed by the kuomintang Press in
| Picking. 1t il believed. however. that
| Marking is seriously menaced Both
Marking and Pengpu are on the rail
way.
To the southeast, along the western
shore of Lake Taihu, near Thing,
"A battle is reported under way, with
no indication thus far as TO the prob
able outcome.
| Chang Tsung chang is concentrate
ing Shantungese troops at Soochow
| and Changchow, respectively east and
north OF the lake. to@preVent cutting
of Tho "a ilWaV there