Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-22
FeIled as Shantungese Are
Driven Toward Foreign
Area-SheIIs Whiz Over
:, 'TaIIest Buildings in City.
ADDITIONAL AMERICAN
SAILORS ARE LANDED
Fires Throughout Night Raze Huge
Sections in Native City-Armed
Striking Postmen Run Amuck.
10000 Workers Join General
Walkout as Rioting Continues.
BY REGINALD sWEETLAND.

News. Copyright, 1927.
D SHANGHAI, March 22.-Eleven
British soldiers were killed or
wounded when Shantungese SOL
diers retreated down the settlement
outside the north settlement bound
airy at o'clock this evening.
Cantonese lined the roofs of build
ings, firing on the retreating North
erners, who were advancing toward
the settlement. The British troops
were forced to retreat rather than
become involved in the Chinese civil
war.
Volunteers Rush Aid.
Foreign volunteers and British,
Spanish and Italian reinforcements
rushed UP to prevent the battle from
breaking into the settlement. The
action may force the British defense
forces to assume the offensive. The
entire neighborhood is under fire.
Additional American and British
sailors were landed this morning
when the situation took a more seri-
OTIS turn owing to complete control
of the Chinese area adjacent to the
settlement being seized by armed
guards which grasped civil and ad-
ministrative offices.
Stray bullets, machine gun and rife
fire continue to menace foreigners and
Chinese within the foreign settlement.
Some bullets have hit pedestrians in
the central business district.
Periodically big shells whizz over
the city's ta1iest buiidings. One landed
in the Whangpoo River just off the
Bund within so yards of the Hawkins,
the British flagship.
First Division Arrives.
The Cantonese first division of the
first army, 1000 strong, followed the
railroad into Shanghai south station,
Offering no resistance when refused
entrance into the settlement extension
roads by British outposts.
Fires razed huge areas in the
d Chapel district NATIVE city of Shang
hai), continuing from Monday and
lighting up the quay throughout the
night. No attempt was made to cope
with the bIazes, as they were within
gun range of Northern stragglers as
well as labor gunmen.
!, One hundred and fifty thousand
workers have joined the general
strike which was declared as
the Cantonese reached the city.
Essential services are being operated
by soldiers, Marines and volunteers.
The post Office, over which the revolu
tionary flag is flying, is occupied by
company of American volunteers.
Postmen Run Amuek.
Striking postmen armed with rifles
continue to run amuck in the Chinese
city, firing on Chinese and foreigners
promiscuOusly.
Americans residing outside the
limits of the foreign concessions are
evacuating their residences this eve
nsng and pouring into the settlement
with few possessions.
The north railroad station is the
center of disturbances. remnants of
the northern forces engaging Kuomin-
tang agents and labor gunmen
throughout the night and day and
2 occasionally directing big guns at the
arnaored train which Gen. Chang
Chung-Chang's white Russians de-
serted at the settlement. A ma jority
of the shells have thus far passed
overhead. One fell in Chinese
movie studio in the French conces-
sion, but the residential district has
not been damaged.
More Barbed Wire Erected.
Coolies under the direction of the
municipal council worked throughout
the night erecting additional wire
barricades along the waterfront ada
cent to the French concession and at
.other strategic positions.
The British defense forces have ex-
tended their outposts far into Chinese
territory.
Railway communications between
Shanghai end Nanking have been dis
a 0fffat1Ie fxKyd
trains on lie Shanghai-Hangchow
Railway going southwardsGo welcome
the Cantonese.
Gen. ri Chu.Chen. who was Gen.
Chang Chung Chang's defense COM
missioner of Shanghai. took refuge in
Sha anghai's leading hotel within the
foreign settlement. under an assumed
name. He is expected 10 fee to Japan
when the time Is propitious.