Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-10
S. CITIZENS
SAFE IN China
WARDISTRICT
Relief Train In Tsinan
Area Fired On and
u. S. Consul Endan-
gered Tuesday

TSINGTA0, China, May 10.-CPy-
Having run a gauntlet Of Chinese
fire, Americans fleeing from embat-
tied Tsinan were safe at Tsingtao to-
day. All Americans in the war zone
we're believed TO be safe as the Jap
anese troops continued their battle
TO disarm the Chinese nationaiists
and drive them from the zone out
lined in the Japanese ultimatum.
United States Consul Price at
Tsinan was under fire yesterday.
refugees said. The relief train fly
ing the American, British and Jap
anese flags, was fired upon by the
n~ationalists as il came from TZinan
the Chinese attempting 10 pick off
japanese guards.
The Japanese first bombarded
Tsinan on Tuesday afternoon using
three inch guns, mortars and machine
guns 70 drive out the na~tionalists
who refused to withdraw.
Japanese officials today were reti-
cent regarding the situation. They
blamed faulty communications for
their meagre information. There were
rumors however of further casual
ties on both sides as a result of the
bombardment.
TOKYO. May l0.-P)-Japanese
troops today continued to battle
against the Chinese nationalist
around Tsinan in an attempt 10 dis
arm them and IL was stated unoffi-
cially in government circles that
Japan would neither ask nor accept
mediation in the Shantung affair.
Four Japanese were killed and
twenty wounded when the Twenty
Eighth brigade under General Soto
yama joined battle with a powerful
force of Chinese under General Chen
Tiao Yuan. The Chinese casualties
were severe.
Prior TO this engagement General
Sotowama's force had succeeded in
: disarming a force of sousherners at
Kotien, about Is miles east Of Tsin-
ar. The Japanese forces also occu-
pied many strategic points around
Tsinan.
The unofficial government view re-
Carding mediation was that Japan
did not consider the present situation
war and that therefore the matter
could be settled automatically be-
tween China and Japan. II was not
believed that America would assume
the role of mediator and intimations
that the United States would were
regarded as propaganda emanating
from Tsinan.
A war office report placed the
blame for the fresh outbreak of
fighting on the n~ationalists. It stat
ed that the japanese, noting an abb
senee Of good faith on the part Of
the n%ationalists, attempted 70 nego-
tate with them to disarm. The ma
tionalists resisted and five thousand
Of them attacked the Japanese.
Thereupon the Japanese swept the
main force from the city.
The wal office stated that the ma
tionalists had destroyed the japanese
cemetery. digging up the graves and
committing other barbarities.
The government today chartered
seventeen vessels to transport the
Nagoya division to Tsingtao.
The latest news from Shantung said
that Japanese airplanes flying over
Tsinan induced the southerners un-
der Geenral Feng Chen-Wu who oc-
cupied the Chinese quarter Of the
town to capitulate. They were i'm
mediately disarmed.
The Japanese have disarmed 1000
Chinese since the first outbreak Of
hostilities. II was stated that $50
Chinese were killed during the fight
ing Tsinan.