Evening star., 1927-04-18
CHINESE BANDITS
SLAY MISSIONARY
AND DAUGHTER, 8
Party Attacked While Fleeing
Toward Hongkong-Three
Others Captured.
AMERICAN DESTROYER
IN BATTLE ON YANGTZE
Reported Fired on by Northern
Forces-Powers Preparing
Ultimatum to Chen.
BY the Associated Press.


SHANGHAI, April 1S.--Foreign
missionaries who came to Shanghai
from all parts of the interior to seek
the shelter of the international settle
ment We're saddened today by the
news of the murder by Chinese ban
dts of one of their fellow workers,
the Rev. Morris Sliclter of Toronto,
Canada, and his S-year-old daughter.
They were anxious, too, for the safety
of Mrs. Slichter, the missionary's wife;
her 5-year-old son, John. and Miss
Mary r. Craig of Philadelphia.
nurse, taken captives by the bandits.
Mr.. Slichter and the others of the
party were attached to the China In.
land Mission at Anshunfu. The MUIR
ders took place at Yunnanfu- reputed
TO be a hotbed of banditry.
1t is feared there We're others in the
party, as the mission was composed OF
seven adults, who. it is thought, would
be travelling together, Among those
reported to have been with Mr.. Slich-
ter's party is DIR. d. V. Rees.
Were Seeking Safety.
When the outrage occurred the
missionaries were making their way
southwark to the railway leading to
Hongkong, having left their station
when the British consul suggested IL
would be unwise for them to remain
longer because of the disturbed condi-
tions. When the attack took place is
not known, but it is believed to have
occurred about week ago.
Formation of government at Nan
king by Gen. Chang kai.shek was re-
ported today.
Ne details were given in the meager
dispatches received. but it is under
stood that Canton, Shanghai and Nam
king men figure largely in its COM
position.
Thus there are apparently three
governments in China, not counting
the various semiindependent war
lordshins.
Mass Meetings Planned.
Tho political department of the
5eastcs'n division of the Cantonese
army has arranged two mass meetings
in the Chinese section of Shanghai to
celebrate establishment Of the Ma
tionalist government at Nanking and
restoration of Kuomintang Influence
in the SOUTH" The first meeting was
set for this afternoon and the second
for tomorrow.
A formal plenary session of the
right wing Kuomintangers was sched-
uled to open in NankinG today to rat.
ify the Impeachment of the HanlioW
Communists voted by last weeks;
ameeting of the central control commit.
tee and to draft the basis for the new
government.
1t is learned that 1Iou Shao-Chiu.
a professor in Shanghai University
and described in dispatches as "a no
torious Communist" was executed at
Marking on April 8 under orders from
Chang Kai-Shek.
u. S. Destroyer Hit.
At last accounts firing was contin-
uing across the Yangtze River be-
tween the Northern forces at Pukow,
on the northern bank, and the Can
tonese at Nanking, on the southern
bank, but news as to the progress of
the battle was meager. The firing
was particularly heavy Saturday aft
ernoon, when the Northerners brought
many machine guns and cannon into
action. The American destroyer John
ID. Ford and q lighter belonging to
Butterfield & Swyre were hit by the
lire of the Northerners as they passed
up the river. Bringing her big guns
into play, the destroyer soon silenced
the Northern batteries and then con.
tinued her journey.
Military observers estimated today
that there were 10000 Northern troops
In the vicinity of Pukow, among them
1000 White Russians. One report
from the Zangtze was that the Can
tonese We're planning to take the Of
ftY 6n F,,t -.
Northerners.
Another received by official foreign
sources was that the Cantonese cap.
tured $4,000 Northern soldiers north
of Pukow in the last few days. The
prisoners, it is said, are to be sent to
Fukien Province by way of Shanghai,
to be incorporated in the Cantonese
army.
Chen's Reply Unsatisfactory.
Peking dispatches said that the rep
resentatiyes of the United States,
Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy
had sought further instructions from
their governments as to the next step
in the negotiations with Eugene Chen,
the Cantonese foreign minister, grow
ing out of the Marking outrages. The
representatives of the five powers
NCt1 0toNAApCh CTS 1&iNDlihS, ilIN iiIVc1o-
ures on the ground that Chen's reply
to the five-power note concerning the
outrages was unsatisfactory.
In connection with the suggestion of
Chen that an international commits
sion be appointed to investigate the
Marking affair, it is empha sized that
the guilt of the Nationalist (Cantonese)
troops has been definitely established
by official Investigations. Chen in his
reply refused to acknowledge that the