Evening star., 1927-04-04
AMERICAN SAILORS OPEN FIRE
ON CHINESE on YANGTZE RIVER

and promised to do his utmost to
maintain peace and order there.
He repeated the request, previously
fatty rejected that the detachment
of Japanese sailors which was landed
be withdrawn, on the ground that this
would calm the populace and prevent
possible further clashes. The consul
general again refused the request.
The message adds that Chinese
guards who We're sent to protect the
border of the Japanese concession de
liberatelv fired on the Japanese.
The melee between the japanese
and natives grew out of a quarrel
between a Japanese sailor and
coolie. A mob of Chinese invaded the
concession, held up Japanese in the
streets and began looting.
Sailors We're quickly landed from
warships in the Yangtze and opened
with machine guns to disperse the
Chinese, Woupding two of them.
Americans Leave Canton.
Dispatches from Canton say gen
eraI exodus of Americans from Canton
to Hongkong is under way. The
American gunboat Pampagna has ar
rived there
A British gunboat has gone to
Wuchow to protect the Britishers
Americans and other foreigners are
leaving points in central and western
Chihli Province as the Cantonese
continue their steady advance to-
ward Peking from the south.
Foreign residents of Kalgan north
west of the capital, have departed
for Tientsin, near the Gulf of Chlhh,
where they can be quickly embarked
i'm case of emergency. The exodus
OF foreign women and children from
Peking itself also continues.
The American Chamber of Com
merce in Shanghai, in a statement
just issued, calls for immediate con-
certed action by the powers 10 re-
store order in China.
1t declares that militarism, bri
gandage and bolshevism have de-
stroyed all semblance of law and or
der in the greater part Of China and
that the joint action called for
would have a ar-reaching influence
throughout the country and be OF
ultimate benefit TO the Chinese them
selves.
Assurances Are Doubted
Recent events leading to the evac-
uation of the entire Yangtze Valley
saws the statement. do not coincide
with repeated assurances of mill
tarists and other spokesmen of polit-
ical factions that they can and VIII
protect life and property"
1.-THE mass of the conservative and
law abiding Chinese" the statement
declares, reduced to q state of help
less intimidation, are unable to take
effective measures to protect either
themselves or foreigners. The adop-
ton OF concilatory policy by
foreign governments has merely
strengthened the lawless elements
and encouraged outrages like those
at Marking"
Germans, hitherto virtually immune
from Nationalist anti-foreignism, now
are beginning to feel its effects
throughout the Yangtze Valley The
Germans have entirely evacuated
Changsha, Province Of Human. not
owing to personal molestation, but
because of a Nationalist rule which
prevents foreigners from carrying on
business.
Elsewhere along the Yangtze. how
ever. there are widespread signs of
minor incidents, indicating that the
Germans also are falling under the
ban of Nationalist hostility.
Raises New Condition.
This condition is new. In the early
DAYS of the campaign to drive out
foreigners the Germans wore bands
around their arms to denote their ma
tionality, expecting discrimination in
their favor. One German and one
Belgian Were attacked early in Janu-
ary, when q mob took over the Brit
ish concession at HankoW. They were
mistaken for British.
The scandinavian. Spanish and
Belgian missionaries, who shared with
the Americans and British the Ma
tionalist hostility TO Christianity, al
ready have evacuated the Yangtze and
south coast ports. A group Of 16
Spanish priests today was being evac-
uated from Anhui Province.
The large German community in
Tsinganfu, where the Germans gained
foothold during their occupation of
Kiaochow, shares the uneasiness of
other foreigners over the prospect of
the collapse of the authority of Gen.
Chang Tsun.Chang and is sending out
women and children.
Still Favored In Canton.
IN Canton the Germans are still in
a favored position and wear arm
bands to show their nationality. stu.
dents at Tungchi College at Woosung.
near Shanghai, an old established
German institution, have put up
posters which declare hostility to all
foreigners, including Germans who
are educating them.
The local labor situation continues
disturbed. The general labor union
was extremely busy today organizing
and framing demands and manifestos.
Banners with anti-British slogans
in Chinese stretched across all roads
leading from Chapel to the British
settlement. They We're in full view
of the British troops holding the bar.
riers Down with the British"
'Avenge the Chinese killed by the
British at Nanking" read two of the
banners. Another said "Evacuate
British troops and warships from
Shanghai or suffer-