Evening star., 1927-04-11
: U. S., England, France, Italy
and Japan Ask Apology
for Nanking Incident.
WARNING TO CANTONESE
CONTAINED IN PROTEST
Punishment and Full Reparation
for All Injuries and Dam
age Insisted Upon.

generals Of the United States, Grea
Britain, France, Japan and Italy to
day presented a note to the Cantones
containing three demands in conse
quence Of the anti-foreign rioting a
Nanking Of March "a.
The demands, as given out by tn
Chinese authorities, are:
FNirst-Punishment of the command
ers and troops responsible for th'
killing and wounding Of foreigners
for the indignities to which Others
were subjected and for the materia
damage done.
Second-A written apology from th'
commander-in-chief Of the Cantones,
armies and a formal promise tt
abstain from violence against foreign
ers and interests.
Third-F'ull reparation for the in
turies and damages.
Protest Contains Warning.
Unless the Cantonese prove their in
tention to comply without delay, tbs
powers warned that they would b.
compelled to take such steps as they
considered necessary.
The protest, in the form of identiC
notes, was delivered to representa-
tives of the Cantonese government
at the foreign affairs bureau outside
the international settlement at
o'clock this afternoon.
The protest was formally delivered
TO Gen. Pei Tsung-H commander OF
the eastern division Of the Cantonese
army, acting for Gen. Chang kai
Shek, Cantonese commander-in-chief
who is at present in Marking. 1t was
likewise delivered to Eugene Chen
Cantonese foreign minister, at Han
kow.
Delivery of the protest TO Gen, Pc
was made by Sir Sidney Barton, Brit
ish consul general. as dean of the con
sular corps, acting as the spokesman
for the American, French. japanese
and Italian consul generals.
Gen. Pei Silent on Note.
Gen. Pei declined to discuss the
note officially. saying it would be for
warded forthwith to Gen. Chang anC
10 Quo Tai-Chi, commissioner of for
eign affairs for the Shanghai district
He remarked, however, that it fails
TO suggest the means by which gull
would be fixed.
He suggested that the Cantonese
might broach the suggestion to th'
powers that a joint committee make
a thorough study OF the affair to de
termine who was guilty and the ma
ture of the punishment necessary.
He said he was not speaking off
cially, as the reply to the note woul'
be made from Hankow by Foreigl
Minister Chen.
HankOw Denfenses Ready.
A radio message from Hankow Il
day said that the American consu
Frank p. Lockhart, had chartered
steamer which was moored offshor
as a residence for Americans remain
ing at Hankow Approximately
Americans intend to stay at HankoN
unless further incidents necessitat
their evacuation.
One wireless message from Har
kow, under date of April 8, said tn
Japanese were then placing stron
defenses about the concessions an
mobilizing their volunteers. Anothe
said that two steamers, conveyed b
a Japanese destroyer, had left Har
kow with 500 additional Japanes
refugees, who intended to sail 70
Japan from Shanghai.
Japanese and French have eyacl
ated the districts above Bankow, an
the Americans remaining UP the rive
have left Ichang and Changshe
on Thursday.
A serious situation. steadily grow
ing worse, was described in Japanes
reports from SoOchow, on the Gran
Canal, about so miles west of ShanG
hal. Coolies and police surrounde
the Japanese consulate and busines
premises, preventing the evacuatio
of "a men and 10 women
Shanghai Is Reassured.
In Shanghai itself. the internationa
settlement felt reassured by the con
paratIve quiet OF the past few days
There was q sense of security anon
the foreigners through real:za eion tina
for the protection Of foreign lives an
interests the greatest internati0na
naval concentration ever seen in tn
Orient had been brought together j
Chinese waters.
The correspondent here OF tn
Rengo (Japanesel News Agency ha
received advices from the uppe
Yangtze leading TO the belief tha
virtually all Japanese eventually wi
eyacuate the YangtZe points. All bu
"a handful of men are expected to b
gone from Iiankow within thre
weeks.
japanese reports indicate little hop
for better conditions for weeks, pc
haps months. 1t is pointed out, hOv
ever, that this does not mean til
Japanese will surrender their col
cessions, as the Toxic government
confident that eventually the di
turbances will subside, permitting
return under modified conditions.
Some 150 Cantonese Nationals
agents We're reported i'm radio de
patches today to have been execute
in the Tsingtao region the last fe
days by the Shantung militar
authorities.
Cantonese Again Menace.
The Cantonese armies, checked
their northward advance, now are a
parently threatened on two fronts /
advancing Northern armies.
1t is persistently reported fro
Nanking that Manchurian forces al
rapidly advancing down the Tientsi
Pukow Railway. while to the cas-
Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang's rejuvenatC
army is progressing in strength sout
ward along the Grand Canal,
Dispatches reaching here fro
both Nanking and Chinkiang a,
badly delayed, but support previol
reports that the Cantonese have ST.
fered serious reyerses.
Following withdrawal Of the Ca
, f. tonese across the Yangtze fro
Pukow to Nanking Saturday, {
military stores were brought aero
the river yesterday. while artillel
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