New Britain herald., 1927-03-22
N Native Sections of Sh angh a i Entirely Given Over to Fight ing, Rapine, Looting and Encendiarism.
Nandals Cut Off Women's Fingers to Get Rings Machine Gunners Clear Crowded Streets With Sprays of Shots
(By the Associated Press }

(By the Associated Press.l
 Shanghai's international settie. mant, harboring thousands of for. signers and protected by steel ring of armed forces, today was an isle Of safety, surrounded by the angry waves Of fierce fighting, rapine, loot. ing and incsndiarism.
 Invasions Rcpelled
 With the native sections of the city utterly given over to rio'ing plundorins and bloodshed in which both the victorious Cantonese and the defeated ShanEtungese took part the foreign defenders anXiously paced the barbed wire boundaries and repelled all attempts at inva- sion.
 Cut off by the Cantonese army those remnants of the Shantungese forces not engaged in footing strove 10 pierce the barriers and gain the protection Of the foreign fighting men against their enemies.
 Hundreds of them were admitted after surrendering their rifles, but others, throwing themselves in ap- parent frenzy upon the foreign de- lenders. were repuised by force of arms.
 Arc Quickly Elected
 Tn one such clash q few score succeeded in breaking through, but were quickly ejected, Another charge broke when the British opened fire, killing at least twelve and wounding about score.
 An arnorei train. manned by white Russians. allied with the Shangtungese, moved up and down lcry bolchins shot in every direc- ton. One shell struck the premises ot the Presbyterian mission in the international settlement, causing much damage but luckily iniuring no one.
 The Cantonese are pushing a column around Shanghai toward the las. center Of Shantungese resistance, mo north railway station, where a fight is expected soon.
 In tha settlement itself, the gen. aral strike of Chinese workers is spreading, and intimidation has extended to include foreigners, at least one having been threatened with assassination.
 Streets Strcwn With Dead
 Shanghai. China, March 22 tP- British troops shot and killed al least twelve and wounded about a score of Shantungese when they made a fresh attempt to break through the barriers of the inter- national settlement here late today.
 Twelve Chinese were killed and eighteen wounded in another border fight between British and Shantung- cse troops a half mile to the west Of the first fight.
 Prior to the second incident, 200 Shantungese, disarmed, had entered the settlement peacefully. Seven hundred more attempted to enter and fired on the British. Two of the British were wounded. after which they returned the fire.
 Foreign ambulanccs took the Chinese wounded in both affairs to the hospital. The troops Of the Dur ham regiment were involved Tn all of today's frontier incidents.
 Shipping. fires and footing continue in the chapel quarter just outside the international settlement, where mobs composed partly of Shantung ese soldiers, partly of ordinary criminals and partly of nationalist gunmen, hold sway.
 The streets are Strcwn with dead. Tn numerous cases. the robbers have cut off women's fingers 10 get their rings.
 Every place holding the promise cf loot has been cleaned out.
 Nothing is 10 be heard but shots and the screams of women and chill dren. running historically to and fro.
 Sometimes, loot-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 people.
 Bot despite all this, it is declared that Chapel is merely undergoing tlc experiences that scores of other Chinese towns had have in the past during the present civil warfare.
 Will Surrender
 It is officially announced that General ri Shu-Chen. commander of the northern defense forces at Shanghai. has agreed to surrender. His exploitation was arranged yes t"rday in negotiations with Chang <ai-Shek, nationalist gencralissimo. The kuomintang, or nationalist flag has been hoisted over General Pi Shu-Chen's headquarters. but many thousands of Shantungcse sol dicrs in certain sections this evening were still unaware of the surrender.
 
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