Evening star., 1928-05-06
Messages Say Horrors in
Chinese City Resemble Those
of Boxer Uprising.
NORTHERN ARMY PLANS
TO B0MBARD TOWN
Toxic Press Blames Own Leaders
for Condition-Heavy Losses
Indicated in Reports,


military authorities over the use of
u locomotives at Tsngshan is re-
ported in dispatch to Rengo. the
japanese ne@s agency.
The dispatch claims that the
Americans wanted the engines for
the transportation of troops and
took them from the Mukdenites on
the ground that the Chinese war
fare had interrupted railway trafic.
Sy the Associated Press.
Scenes Of horror in the foreign quar-
ter Of TSinan. reminiscent of the Boxer
upriSings, followed occupation of the
city by Nationalist troops. according to
messages reaching Toxic.
japanese residents. including women.
were killed, some with apparently grue-
some tortEres. these dispatches indicate.
Six bodies recovered bear the evidence
Of atrocities.
Details Of the japanese defense OF
hastily erected barricades on the morn
ing Of May have arrived in Wash
tngton in report from American Con-
sui Brice. For eight hours. he said.
there was general fighting. with the
japanese using srmored cars. and final
ly, field artillery. Isolation of some
units of both sides. so that orders could
not reach them. was suggested by Mr..
Brice as probably having something
70 do with the outbreak.
Americans Reported Safe.
Al Americans in the city are safe.
according 10 messages sent Shanghai
b. the Nationalist generalissimo, Chaing
Kaisher. who also notified British off,
cialS that English nationals there we're
alive and safe A similar report. dis
patched at II m. Friday. was received
from the American consul al Tsinan,
this adding that no Germans had been
harmed, although German hotel had
been looted
Contrary TO these reports, howeveF,
was another 10 the Standard Oil Co
that foreigners other than japanese
had been killed. and that the company
was investigating the condition Of its
American employees there
Although reports Of casualties show
the widest variance. 1t is certain that
both Chinese and japanese have lost
heavily. The Japanese machine gun
and artillery fire has cut a wide swath
IN the Nationalist ranks, while the
Chinese have retaliated with renewed
looting and offenses against japanese
women. A number Of bodies, evincing
the most graeso1ne atrocities, have been
thrown by the Southerners near the
Japanese barTicadeS.
Japan Rushes More Troops.
There were no reports of renewed
fighting at Tsi1an yesterday, but
whether this was due TO interruption
of communication facilities or to ceS-
Sation Of hostilities could not be learn
ed japanese reinforcements TO the
scant two or three thousand men pro-
tecting the foreign settlement were be-
ing rushed from both Manchuria and
Tsingtao. with the chance. however.
that destruction Of railroad lines around
the city will delay their arrival.
Nationalist forces al Tsinan. believed
20 be aFrayed against the small Jap
sneSe garrison are estimated al from
20 010 70 40 000 the number including
certain unruiy elements over which the
Nationalist command has apparently
lost all control
In Japan the morning press took the
attitude that the fighting had been
precipitated by the japanese themselves
and almost without exception the
papers blamed the government for the
condition Reuters dispatches from
Toxic say reticence Of the japanese
war office 10 give details Of the fighting
Is interpreted ag implying heavy losses.
which. II revealed, win react unfavor-
ably 70 the ministry. already under fire,
and the country abroad.