Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
CHINESE BOYCOTT
PUT ON u. S. GOODS
IN HUMAN PROVINCE
Anti-AmeriCan Feeling Also
Takes the Form of Strike
at ChangSha.
ALL ALIENS PREPARE
TO EVACUATE KIANGSI
Situation North of Yangtze Grows
More Precarious as Cantonese
Press Advance.
pa the Associated Pres.

~ the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, April 6.-Anti-Amer-
fcan agitation, taking the form OF
strike and a boycott of American
goods, has broken out at Changsha'
Capital of the province of Human, IN
Southern China.
A wireless dispatch from that place
today said the strike and boycott
went into effect at noon Monday, ana
,enorted that the American consul
has gone aboard the United States
xyunboat Palos, on the Slang River,
Dr,paratory to leaving Changsha. The
whole province of Human will be eVac-
uated by foreigners shortly because OF
labor and anti-foreign manifestations.
Kiukiang, on the Yangtze River IN
I<iangsi province, reported that gen.
eral strike against all foreigners mas
heen called to begin at noon today,
while at Hankow, headquarters OF the
Cantonese. or Nationalist government,
all business was virtually at stand.
still.
Japanese Leaving Hankow.
Japanese civilians boarded steam
ships on the Yangtze, making READY
TO evacuate Hankow. About 1OO
French, Belgians and Swiss remained
in the city. Britishers and Americans
took quarters close to the water front
SO as to be ready to leave at short
notice. The Americans in Hankow
number about los.
Several heads OF American firms ap-
piled to the American consul general
for his approval of their remaining
at their posts, but he informed them
they would stay at their own risk.
While the state of affairs south of
the Yangtze River, caused by anti
foreign agitation appears TO be grow
ing steadily worse, the civil war sit
uation north of the great river is be-
coming more precarious as the Can
tonese armies progress toward the
northern capital. Picking. For the
moment the detectives of the Can
toese are Tsinanfu. capital of Shan
tung, and Tientsin. strategic railway
center Of the north.
Americans Seek Safety.
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, the North
ern war chief, it is felt here, can hold
Picking only so long as he is able to
retain possession Of Tientsin. for that
railway center provides the only
means of communication with the
Manchurian base of the Northern
forces.
Americans and Britishers in the ter
ritory through which it is expected the
Cantonese now will make their way
are hastily seeking points Of safety,
fearing a repetition of the outbreaks
which followed the Cantonese victories
in the Yangtze Valley.
A manifesto, issued at Shanghai by
the Cantonese leaders, denied in veil
ed terms that split existed within
the Kuomintang or Republican revolu-
tionary party. 1t contained an appeal
for unity within the Cantonese ranks
at this crucial moment"
AS for the foreign settlements at
Shanghai, the manifesto had this TO
say:
The Communists have Endorsed the
KuomintanG's resolution to refrain
from the use Of military force to ef-
feet the retrocessions of the settle
ments. The General Labor Union has
issued a manifesto that laborers will
not try to invade the settlements,
singly or independently, Of others"
Marking Reported Bombed.
An airplane of the Northern Chinese
forces, says a wireless message from
Marking, dropped three bombs today
on Marking and two on Pukow. across
the Yangtze River from Marking.
Anti-foreign feeling was reported to
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