Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-22

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gotiations with Chang Kai-Shek, Ma
tionalist generalissimo.
The kuomintang, or Nationalist,
flag has been hoisted over Gen. Pi
Shu Chen'S headquarters, but many
thousands of Shantungese soldiers in
certain sections this evening were
still unaware of the surrender.
Shipping and Looting Continue.
Shipping, fire and looting continue In
the Chapel quarter just outside the
international settlement, where mobs
composed partly of Shantungese sol
diers, partly of ordinary criminals
and partly of Nationalist gunner
hold sway.
The streets are strewn with dead. In
numerous cases, the robbers have cut
off women's fingers in order to obtain
their rings.
Every place holding the promise of
loot has been cleaned out, but the
problem of the criminals is how to
get away with their booty. AS they
leave the city they are met by swarms
Of entering ghouls, and bloody fights
occur.
Numerous innocent people are re.
ported to have been killed in these af-
fairs. The scenes in Chapel are indie
scribable. Blocked thoroughfares pre-
vent the escape of the victims from
the robbers.
Nothing is to be heard there but
shots and screams of women and chill
dren, running Historically to and fro.
Many of the women, afraid to remain
in the houses, are roaming the streets
unclad, having been stripped of their
clothing by the soldiers in their wild
hunt for loot
Machine Guns Sweep Streets.
Sometimes ioot-laden soldiers are
protected by comrades with machine
guns, who think nothing of clearing
the way down a crowded street by
opening fire and killing scores of peo-
pie.
But despite all this, 1t Is declared
that Chapel is merely undergoing the
experiences that scores of other Chi
nese towns have had in the past dur
ing the present civil warfare.
A prominent missionary authority
says tens of thousands Of villagers in
the provinces of Shensi, Yunan,
Kweichow, Honan and other parts of
the country, have been murdered in
the lest year.
Tonight the sky was lighted by the
fires spreading in the district.
A three-pound shell struck the Pres.
byterian Mission premises in the in
ternational settlement this afternoon
and exploded 1t caused much dam
age, but there were no casualties.
Almost Continuous Shipping.
The attempt to invade the settle.
ment followed a day of intermittent
firing between the mort hprnerS and
Cantonese guerrillas in the native
Chapel district.
There was continuous SHIPPING,
mostly by Nationalist riiemen, on the
northeastern border of the settlement,
and many shots penetrated the for.
eign quarter. The Japanese marines,
who are holding the easterly portion
of this area, are replying to the
snipers shot for shot. The Japanese
are posted on several high roofs
from which they watch for the
snipers.
A small detachment of the Durham
battalion (British), holding the bar
rier near the northern railway sta
ton, was fired on by a Shantungese
soldier lying on the ground After
the third shot, the British command
ing officer ordered his men to fire
once. They did so, and there were
no more shots from the sniper.
Then a number of other National
list marksmen opened up, and bullets
whiZzed past the barrier. The de-
tenders, who had narrow escapes, did
not reply for fear of hitting non
combatants. This incident was typi.
cal Of the constant happenings along
the northern and northeastern bound.
airy of the settlement.