Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07
SUN RUSHES LAST
RESERVES TO STOP
FOE At HANGCHOW
Cantonese Said to Have
Agreed to u. S. Proposal
Not to Attack Shanghai.
HEAVY FIRING INDICATES
ADVANCE OF INVADERS
Southerners Reported Within Is
Miles of Strategic City-British
Support Kellogg Plan.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SHANGHAI, February 7.-Tenslon
Increased in Shanghai today as the
city. now crowded with foreign ref
ugees, awaited news from the battle
front south of here and studied a re-
port that the attacking Cantonese
army would not attempt to take the
city by force.
Message from Hangchow. critical
boint for the embattled forces. de-
clared the booming of artillery could
he heard there. indicating that the at
tacking southerners have advanced
again. To offset this, headquarters of
Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, ally OF the
northern powers and defender of
Shanghai his last stronghold, assert
ed his forces were successfully de-
Tending the area.
In spite of Marshal Suns reassur-
ances, it became known that he
rushed the last of his reserves, his
own bodyguard division, 5000 strong,
from Nanking, provincial capital,
down to the front, while unconfirmed
reports to newspapers here said the
attacking army had reached Fuyanf,
Is miles southwest of Hangchow.
StLdHknd1 EJAbOdStOA OONO~A0A
Whether the report that the Canton
ese will not use force on the city is a
promise that they will abandon plans
to draw 1t into the ever expanding
southern territory. or whether 1t Is
an offer to accept the suggestion of
American Secretary of State Kellogg
that the foreign settlement here be
exempted from hostilities, was not
made known.
The offer was reported in message
received here from Hankow, where
Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign
minister, is said to have assured Owen
O'Malley, British charge d'affaires,
. that such a course had been deter
mined upon.
1t was pointed out, however, that
the Cantonese might advance con-
siderable distance without actually
capturing the city or bringing it with
IN range OF the fighting.
Hangchow is considered the imme-
date strategic point in the fighting
in Chekiang Province. IL the Canton
ese capture that city, which is the pro-
vincial capital, they will have over.
come many natural and tactical diff
culties in their march on Shanghai.
A railroad line there connects with
Shanghai, although it has been cut
several times. In possession of the
railroad, the Cantonese would have a
potential asset for moving up guns
and supplies, which up to now have
been transported on human backs
Leaders Get Kellogg Plan.
Although the suggestion of Se'cre-
tary kellogg was delivered originally
to Marshal Chang Tso. Lin, Manchu-
rian dictator and head of the northern
armies, and to Marshal Chang Kai-
Shek, Cantonese field marshal. the
promise that Shanghai will nocs be
taken by force came from a different
source-the Cantonese foreign min
lister.
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin transm tted
MIR. Kellogg's proposal to Marshal
Sun Chuan-F'ang, who is at Marking.
1t now is said to be a matter for de-
ciSion between the two armies bat
Ting south of here. Some northern
leaders believed such an agreement
would be tantamount to surrender of
the city by Marshal Sun, and others
declared it would have been useless
for the Manchurian dictator to have
ordered compliance to the suggestion
in case Marshal Sun considered it a
virtual surrender
1t was pointed out that Sun consid-
ers Shanghai his home and his richest
holding, and would not abandon 1t
even on the order of his superior, if
he considered Secretary Kelloggs pro-
posal, if accepted a disadvantage.
Chen's address at Hankow Saturday,
in which he declared the British gov
ernment is suffering from a "Peking
complex and reiterated his demand
that Great Britain deal with the
Nationalists alone, also was a factor
causing concern.
Situation Not Grasped, He Says.
Elaborating on the point of view
of the Nationalist government, Chen
said the principles manifested inter
nally We're 'agains tthe Chinese feudal-
ism in the double form of a mandari-
nate that misrules at Peking, and a
decaying militarism which sustains
the bandit power of Gen. Chang Tso-
Lin and his allies.
Great Britain has particularly failed
to grasp the situation, the foreign min
lister added, pointing out that instead
of frankly and courageously dealing
with the only government able to
make binding peace with her, she re
taxes iiie ora cart cad toward Geklng
in order 10 associate anti Nationalist
authorities there in negotiations and in
the settlement OF questions which the
Chinese nationalism has compelled the
British and others to envisage as vital
and urgent"
Chen asserted that Sir Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign secre,
tary, in recent speech at Birning.
ham, England, implied that negotia.
tions with the Nationalist government
alone would involve recognition Of a
division existing in the government OF
China.
Urges Opposite Condition.
Chen urged that the opposite con
dition would prevail, for the British
method of proposed dual negotiation
''must cleave China into a Nationalist
China, with a government at Wuhan
and a fuedalist China, with a govern
ment at Peking."
To-day Peldng is dying" Chen de
clared, "the British government, CHIEF
sustainers of the Peking regime. is
facing the greatest crisis of her ca
reer in Far Asia. Between Chinese
nattonalism and Chinese fuedalisn
there can be no compromise The
moment has come when the British
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