Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10

| 1t sailed q few days ago also may be
| slowed aboard the President Grant.
| Six observation airplanes comprised
most of the material for which no
| place could be found on the transport
| Henderson.
| Under the urging of Mr.. MacMurray
| Americans all over north China are
moving toward Picking lest they be
| caught in a flame of anti-foreignism
| like that which ragged at Marking.
Many of them are passing through
| Peking, continuing on to Tientsin,
selected as the concentration center
| In anticipation of arrival of the South
ern Army with it's advance guard of
propagandists and agitators. From
| Picking itself numbers of women and
| children are being evacuated for
| Tientsin, although so far as Is known
here Minister MacMurray has not yet
advised flight from the capital.
Conflicting reports from Paris and
London concerning the status of the
| allied demands resulting from the
| Marking and other outbreaks failed
to produce an explanation of the
course the Washington Government
will take.
1t appears, however, that the bur-
den of the American negotiations ap-
pears to have shifted almost COM
pletely to the hands of Minister Mac
Murray. Through correspondence he
understands the desires of the Wash
| ington administration, and is said to
be about ready to act. Possibility ex-
lists, however, that he may find 1t
| necessary to confer with Washington
again In the event his Picking min.
| isterial colleagues differ radically as
to the best means Of procedure.
Cantonese Reported Retiring.
Meager reports yesterday of the
| military situation along the Yangtze
River indicated that the southerners
have lost to the northerners in a
battle in the Chinkiang sector. The
destroyer Paul Jones advised the
Navy that large numbers of Canton.
csc troops were retiring to the south
bank of the Yangtze from the north
shore and from Silver Island. No
details were given except that Ma.
tioualist flags in the area were being
hauled down and that during the
night three cruisers belonging to the
| northern faction had appeared at
Silver Island.
Complete evacuation by Americans
at Changsha on the Yangtze was re.
| ported by the gunboat Palos, which
said 1t had sailed for Hankow with
the American consul aboard. It added
that the manager OF Young Brothers
bank at Ichang had been dragged
through the streets of the city sand
beaten because he refused demands
by labor leaders and strikers. The
dispatch gave no details.
10r N.~n-su.un M HAoeo.
From Chefoo the destroyer William
B. Preston reported quiet in that area
although Nationalist feeling was
growing. Americans numbering 121
have been assembled there, compris-
| ing all in the district, and British
consuls. the message added, had d.
| rected their nationals to congregate
at Chefoo or Wei Hal Wei by yester.
day.
Transfer of approximately 285
Americans from Anhwei and Kiangsu
to Tientsin and Tsingtao was report
ed by Consul Alexander G. Swaney
| at Tsinan, who added that about 20
Americans remained in his district,
but most of them were en- route to
the seacoast. with the exception of
six members of the Catholic mission,
he said. only Ave American men re-
manned at Tsinanfu, capital OF Tsinan
province.
All American women and children
and most of the men in the provinces
of Shansi and South ChihH now are
en- route to or have arrived at Tient-
sin, Consul David c. Berger at Tient-
sin reported. He added that Ameri-
cans from Shensi and Kansu prov
inces also were en- route to Tientsin.