Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
SUN RALLIES ARMY
FOR FINAL BATTLE
TO SAVE SHANGHAI
Stand to Be Made 28 Miles
From City-Chang Trying
to Come to Rescue.
APPEALS TO WI TO LET
FORCE PASS SOUTHWARK
Americans and Other Foreigners
Confident Defense Plans for
Them Are Adequate.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. February 19.-The
defeated troops of Marshal sun
Chuan.Fang, ruler of Kiangsu prov
ince. and the Nationalist army that
forced them to retreat from the rlch
city of Hangchow yesterday, were re-
organizing today TO continue the
struggle that will determine the pos
session of Shanghai, the Paris of the
Orient
Forty thousand of Suns soldiers,
thrust from their masters province
of Chekiang, were seeking a place
along the Hangchow- Shanghai Rail
way to make a stand against $4,000
Cantonese preparing to drive aga
them. Sungkiang, % miles from
Shanghai. was believed to be the place
selected by Shanghai's defenders be-
cause of its strategic location on the
Whangpoo River.
Chang Makes Appeal.
Each of the armies was reported
to he receiving reinforcements. Mar
shal Sun was said to be due in
Shanghai tomorrow to personally di'
rect his troops. In response to Sun s
frequent appeals for aid, his any,
Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian dictator
and head of the Peking government S
military campaign against the Nation
alist invaders from the southland, be-
stirred himself to enlist the aid OF
Marshal Wu Pei-Fu.
In a long telegram to his former
ally, chang pleaded with WI not TO
oppose the advance of the northern
troops through Honan province on
their way to attack the Nationalists
III their strongholds at Hankow and
kiukiang and elsewhere on the Yang
Use River. Unless his troops were al
lowed to advance, said Chang, Bolshe-
vism could not be combated. More
over, he had received several calls for
aid from Sun, who was a. former lieu
tenant of Marshal WI.
Wu Fails 10 Reply.
His aims and those of Wu are the
same, said Chang; namely, the sup.
preston of Bolshevism. He reminded
WI that he had done nothing with
his troops since the Cantonese drove
him out Of Hankow last August and
wrested Central China from his con-
troll.
Wu did not reply to Chang's appeal
His troops remained between the
armies of the north and south. What
action Wu will take cannot be fore
told.
Foreigners in Shanghai counted
their armed forces today while $4,000
Chinese of various industries went on
strike and stoned tramway cars.
The strike was political 1t was
engineered by Cantonese propagan-
SGrc tn Lob 60 In - = LII
army over Marshal Sun at Hanchow
and TO weaken the position of the
ruler of this province of Kiangsu to
prepare the way for Cantonese
troops.
Rain DisperSes Coolies.
An all-day rain prevented parades
and demonstrations that might have
caused trouble. The scenes were like
those that preceded the coolie mob
violence in the British concessions at
Hankow and Kiukiang early last
month. In those interior cities,
Cantonese tNationalisU government
authorities assumed administration Of
the British concessions when the
Coolie mobS had driven out the British
residents.
The international settlement mobi-
li2ed it's volunteer corps of residents.
Sixteen hundred of them donned uni
forms in readiness for the call to
action.
There was little apprehension, how
ever, by the many thousand white
residents, including 1000 Americans,
that the 100000 Chinese in the
native city of Shanghai would dis
possess them.
Lying IN the Whangpoo River, off
Shanghai, were 21 foreign warships
of five nations. Five of the fighting
ships flew the American flag. Other
foreign warcraft were steaming to-
ward Shanghai. More than 5000 for
eign soldiers are in the international
settlement and marines are aboard
the ships. Other warshipS and other
marines are coming.
Tactics of PrOpagandists.
The strike was described as "bor-
Ing from within" tactics by National
list propagandists. Similar tactics
have been employed by the Nation
alists ever since they left their home
land province of kWangtung. in
southeast China. last Spring in their
northward drive that gave them
control over half of China. The
piopagandists undermine the popu-
lace with sedtious doctrines; ther
the Nationalist army moves in with
little resistance.
The strike today caused a water
shortage in some districts Wher
water works employees in the French
concession struck. The seamen's
union called out its men. Person.
attempting to get their mail had &
snatched from their hands by picket,
about the post office, which latel
closed.
A British cigarette company in tn,
l1rN ~ q.
factory after 400 mill strikers en-
tered and tried to intimidate it.
thousands of workers. Numerous
other plants closed for the day Il
avert trouble.
Todays strike was regarded as tn,
probable forerunner of genera.
cessation of work.