Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-03-27
anti FOREIGN
FIRES BLAZING
in MANY TOWNS
Nationalist Command
er Asserts No Attack
Will Be Made on
Foreigners


SHANGHAI. Mar. 26.-lP,-Amer-
leans and ether foreigners were flee
ing tonight from points along the
Hangtze valley, driven BY the fires
Of anti-foreiEn feeling which the
bomhardment of NAnkiaT has ap-
parently famed into full blaze.
Meanwhile "A statement was issued
by the Cantonese generalissim0,
Chang kai-Shek, declared that the
foreign powers could not send
enough warships to China 60 sup
press the aspirations Of the Chinese
people.
Chang. who arrived here today
reiterated that foreign lives and
property would not be endangered by
the nationalist army in Shanghai. and
said the natiOnalists had n0 intcn-
ito Of using force ~ change the sta
tus Of the international settlement
here. That problem would be set
tied by diplomatic means lat the
proper time and place"
He waved aside the Nanking affair
a. nh isolated incident. Chang did
not stop off at NankinR Oh his way
from Wuhu, as had been expected.
and his arrival here came NV con-
plete surprise 70 the foreign author
tiles.
Shanghai with its armed and bar
ricaded international settlement Of
fers the most secure place OF refuge
IN nationalist China, and IL is to-
wards this port that the refugee
are headed.
Many Cities Evacuated
Hankow. Nnnking and ChunRkinT
are some az the points evacuated or
about 20 be evacuated BY the for
eigners. while the American des-
troyer Preble has gone to take off
small groups Of Americans from
kiangyin and lesser ports below
Chinking. Friction Is reported be-
tween the foreigners and Chinese at
hung Sha. Human province.
The trouble iB not confined to ma
tionIlist territory. The American
consul AZ Chefco. on the Shantung
peninsula, has requested the dis
patch Of n destroyer there following
clashes between the police and
Shantungese (northern) troops.
With the evacuation Of all the re-
naming Americans from NankinE.
the crisis M that city Al apparently
ended
one killed and four injured con-
stitutes thc American toll 0f cas-
ualtics, aAEfar as known.
DR.. Williams. American vice.
president cf Nanking University.
whose death was reported in pre-
vious dispatches, was shot By a Can
tonese soldier who had just partici-
pated In the looting of his home.
Those injured were Miss Anna ~
Moffett. mission worker. shot
twice by Cantonese troops; Marine
Private Plumley; Earl T. Hobart.
manager Standard OH plant On Sco-
noy hill where a band 81 refugees
were besieged bv Cantonese until re-
lieved by the Anglo-American naval
gunfire; and an unnamed American
blueiacket.
Women BrutaIly Treated
American women were treated bru-
tally by the Cantonese snldiery but
with the exception W. the shooting 0f
Miss Moffctt. who II expected 20 RE-
cover, the 0ffenses apparently we're
limited TO insults and rough hand
ling.
On the ether hand. Japanese wo-
men and children were outraged and
assaulted, ard at least two of their
men folk were shot or bayOncted in
vain efforts tO protect them.
The American marines who had
been sent ashore 20 guard the con-
suiate. acquitted themselves splcn-
didly and accompanied the SocOny
hill refugees safely out Of Nanking
20 the warships in the river.
Refugees arriving here were fer
vent IN their praise or the navy men.
declaring.
The navy saved us. without n.
every foreigner would have been
murdered.
Heroic Marine Saves Refugees
One Of the outstanding incidents
was the heroic action Of an American
sailor. who. when the refugees were
huddlcd on Socony hill. surrounded
by mobs q lott-rrazed Cantonese.
stood on tho roof of the Standard OIL
building amid "a hail 0f bullets. and
gave The signal which brought into
play the big guns of the wnrshipa.
One % the American ships was the
first 70 open fire, and the she'll.
bursting a few yards from the be-
seiging Cantonese soldiers. scat
tered them and allowed the refugees
their chance 70 get 20 the river.
The Japanese did not participate
in the bombhrdment, their forces
acting independently and cnncenfrat-
INK oH the work 0f rtscuinF their
own nationals. but they did nut hes
itate to give aid 10 ther foreigners
when the opportunity arose.
Pekin dispatches say the Amer
lean. British and japanese ministers
there conferred today regarding the
anti-foreign situation, forekhad0w-
ing action tO prevent n repetition
of the NankinE outbreak.
The American legation alEn fr-
structad the consul me HankOw tn
lodge u strong protest with Fnvana
Chen. the Cantonese foreign minis
ter, against the outrageous ana ~.