Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 7

Action Follows Disorganiza- tion in Ranks—20,000 Men Rushed to Nanking. By the Asso LONDON, advices apparent of dis Tt was repc 000 troops were rmed Gen ast Chang Filed. the Formal Profest 1pa orders nd other | the Hankow the 1all son had been rele: nese bandits, v last month wt and his e X » n the Rev. t-year-old ichter ids, 2 No Word of Miss € the foreign off , medical missioy of Pl who was tured by th , is s 8 Shihtsung, where she went after being released MISSIONARY BAYONETTED. So far as Miss M Detalls of Death of Rev. Morris Slichter, Reach Hongkong. HONGKONG, China, May 2 (®).— | The Rev. Morr hter, China inland | »n worker, who was murdered re- - near Yunnanfu with his 8-year- daughter, was bayonetted after | being thrown to the ground, accord- | g to mail advices reaching here from | Yunnanfu today, bearing the date of | April 15 The party was made up, besides the Ir. Slichter and his daughter, of fe, her 5-vear-old son, Miss Mary | and a Roman Catholic mis- Mrs. Slichter, the boy and were made prisoners, but woman_was released later. Mrs. Slichter and the boy were last reported at Shihtsung. The ichter family came from Toronto. The mail advices say that the | fnland mission group left Shihtsung for Yunnanfu with an escort of 110 | soldiers, but that when only a short distance from Shihtsung about 250 men attacked the party and the escort fled. The missionaries were surrounded and shot at, Rev: Mr. Btichter being wounded. Then one of the attacking party | krocked him down with a rifle, and | as he was lying on the ground, with | his daughter in his arms, he was killed by a bayonet thrust. The girl was killed in a similar manner. Mrs. Slichter was stabbed in the breast several times. | The Catholic priest was shot at,| but was not hit. He eseaped behind a wall, later running fnto“the hills, | where he waited for two days, trying | to learn the fate of his coppanions. The members of. the attacking party are said to have worn uniforms, Shihtsung is three days’ journey from Yunnanfu, which is the chief city of Yunnan province, in the southern. most part of China, bordering on Indo- China. U. S. MARINES ARRIVE. Cr sionary. the Transport Henderson With Reaches Shanghai. SHANGHAI, May 2 (®).—The 6th Regiment, United States Marines, con- sisting of two battalions of troops, an aviation unit and a battery of Ar- tillery, arrived at Shanghai aboard the transport Henderson from San Diego this afternoon. The regiment com- prises 1,500 men, commanded by Col. Harold Snyder, recently commandant of the Marine Barracks, Philadelphia Navy Yard. The M es were quartered under eanvas near the Standard Oil wharf. A Chinese fort near Chinkiang, on the Yangtze, fired on the British gun- boat Teal and the naval auxiliary Kiawo yesterday. The British vessels let loose their guns, silencing the fort. There were no casualties on the war- 1,500 | shin and no serious damage was done. | Reports reaching Shanghai today in- dicated that the Japanese have evacu- ated all places in the Yangtze Valley above Hankow. The American passenger and freight steamer President Lincoln was fired on with rifles from the native city of 3 v while bound from or for sea, There were no gl EIRE A o First National Election. The first national election in the United States was held 138 years ago, January 7, 1789. The presidential elec- tors so chosen met in February to vote for President and Vice President. George Washington received 69 votes and was elected President, and Samuel with 34 votes, bes Vice dent of the young republic receiving votes we John :w York, 9; Harrison of Mary- who captured | | special crew of workingmen at work |a method of giving them a coat of LULU DAVENPORT, w\leb«‘r of the famous family of cir riders, who appears here today and lomurrn\\ in the Iluzelllm(k ‘Wallace shows. FIRST CIRCUS HERE FOR TWO-DAY STAY| Mrs. Coolidge to Attend Perform- ance Tomorrow—Diplomats Going Tonight. ‘The circus came to town today amid the gleeful cries of “Hey, Skinn: from the small boy. Hagenbeck-Wallace's first perform- | ance of four on the Camp Melg: grounds opened this afternoon at : o’clock. and tomorrow show. Mrs. Coolidge, who was to have at- tended the performance this afternoon, is expected to be in the audience to- | morrow. Diplomatic Washington, however, will turn out tonight. More than 300 invitations to attend the evening performance had been accepted this morning by members of the diplomatic corps and of the Fed- eral Government and a special section has been reserved for them. Having encountered rain in Cumber- land, Md., Saturday, the circus put its night the circus will | to scrub the poles, dry out the can- vas and clean the entire show of mud, besides painting paraphernalia that had been stained. This is a regular custom, and a difficult one, circus men say, as at least once a week a circus is in rain, and its parapher- nalia must be kept clean. Cairo to Have New Theater. City officials of Cairo recently de- cided to remodel the facade of the old municipal opera house, but found the structure in such poor repair that it | would be cheaper to erect an entire new building. This will require wait- ing until the expenditure can be in- cluded in next year's budget. The opera house has been noted for its adequate stage, which probably will be included in the new theater. —_— Statues Made Weatherproof. To preclude the weather-beaten ap- pearance of statuary, sundials and other objects of art that must remain out of doors; a German has perfected transparent varnish at the beginning of the Winter season. He says that gnow accumulating on the surface has a tendency to absorb chemicals from the air and sufficiently disintegrate the material to form cracks, in which rain and frost continue the damage, That Shakespeare’'s knowledge of Latin and Greek and his familiarity with the habits of schoolboys go to prove that he was a country school- master in early life is the theory ad- vanced by a noted Shakespearian au- thority. Every Woman Needs her own bank account. We'll be glad to have yours at the Federal-American NATIONAL BANK Blotches Mar i!eauiy Zemo for Itching, Irritations, Pimples and Blotches, Apply Any Time, No more worry about ugly Skin Irritations. For you can have a clear smooth skin. Zémo, the pleasant-to- use liquid for Itching, Blotchy Skin— banishes F ‘kheads, Ringworms and Pimples. Use any time. Get Zemo now. At druggists—60c and $1.00, John Rutledge, South Carolina, John Hancock, M chusetts, 4; Samuel Huntington, Connecticut, 2; John Milton, Georgia, 2 and two other andidates, 1 vote each FOR SKIN IRRITATIONS Tonight, tomorrow afternoon | ) {U. S.-CHINA POLICY DETERS ACTION BY OTHER POWERS _(Continued_from First Page.) tach Japan from America and induce an alignment with a_three-power Eu- 1 combine. This would force vashington to choose between isola- tion and joining the other powers. These motives are openly admitted and openly discussed here. America is pilloried as preventing prac tical solution of the tangle. The in- of feeling on this and related shown by efforts to suppress a Weekly Review, an Ameri- can-edited newspaper, which recent- ly critized the policy and actions of the Shanghai Municipal Council and the extreme defense measures at Shanghai. The Review urged a more temper- ate course. The first outward mani- festation of resentment came through letters appearing in the British press organ. Next it was arranged private- ly to have the American Chamber of Commerce demand of J. B. Powell, editor, that he change his attitude or_resign his membership. The action was a plain effort to suppress publicity giving treatment to the anti-intervention and Chinese ides of the issue. The Chinese press s giving great attention to the inci- dent. The matter is likely to react on Chamber of Commerce firms re- sponsible for the edict to Powell, as much of their business is with Chi- nese, U. S. Watched Closely. The Chinese press follows closely all international developments con- cerning China, especially those relat- ing to the attitude of Washington. Some Chinese papers comment about the p ion taken by the American legations and consuls, and intimate that their attitude is likely to impair the usefulness of their work in China hereafter. One editor remarked that if China were really a sovereign state, the ma- jority of foreign diplomats here would be given passports. This, however, is somewhat extreme, because the ministers and consuls so far have pre- served an outward appearancé of de- corum. Their private opinions, though, are well known. Two statements issued lately by mis- sion: s who were involved in the \mkmn outrage are significant be- cause they fail to charge actual as- sault on women, and are somewhat vague about the responsibility of Chi- nese officers who ordered the attacks. These statements, however, declare firm belief that the attacks were of- ficially instigated. The leading British newspaper here has published editoria's admitting that STAR, Gen. Chang Kal Shek, leader of the Moderate Nationalists, was blameless for the Nanking incident, which, it | further said, evidently was framed by Hankow radieals to discredit Chang. Chang and Leaders Break Talking to me some weeks ago, | Chang replied to my question on that | matter by declaring that if it was | | proved that Communists incited the | outrage, he would break with Han- kow. He has since taken that action His severance from the Kuomintang | Left Wing is now complete. Reports | indicate fighting already between troops of Chang and Hankow near kiang. he shaky condition of the Ha government becomes more e every week. Many observers think it is verging on apse and that all | fairly moderate members, including Zugene Chen, foreign minister, prob- | ably will sieze the first chance to get away and perhaps join Chang at Nan- king. | _ Conditions in Hankow verge on an- archy and the place is menaced also | the Northern advance through | Honan Province. On the other hand, | Chang seems to be making little | Progress toward getting the Nanking | government organized. The cabinet is still unformed, and prominent Right Wing members’ of the Kuomintang still hold off and remain in Shanghai, apparently waiting to see whether Nanking or Hankow survives. Meantime the Northern campaign Nanking is virtually suspend- ang and C| , Man churian war lord, deny publiely that they are making terms, but it is un. derstod that their agents are confer- ring daily at Shanghal. Early Truce Expected. Belief grows among the Chinese that a truce has been, or will be de- clared between these generals, permit- ting Chang to devote his entire strength against the Communists. The movemept started a fortnight | ago to suppress Communists in | Shanghal continues. Chang's gen- | e using drastic measures, stop- ping all so-called labor meetings. Sev- | eral secret méeting have been raided, with killing and casualties. These and | other actions convince foreigners that Chang means to stand or fall on the policy of carrying on war against an archy. Conditions in Shanghai are becom- ing easier than expected. The curfew has been lifted and some ba des will be removed soon. Less tention is felt all around, but experts think the o has not been reached. The sus- pense will continue anyway until it is decided whether Nanking or Han- kow will control the Kuomintang and direct the Nationalists' movement. Foreign opinion is slowly swinging to Chang, and calmer persons believe it would be better to delay diplomatic pressure regarding the Nanking out- rage until the situation between the Moderates and Radicals liquidates, Disappointment in Shanghai. There is strong local disappointment among the foreigners here over the failure of the Municipal Council of the International Settlement at Shanghai to take over control of the entire Shanghai port area. Today a prominent Briton published a letter saying that action should be taken while conditlons are ripe, without waiting for diplomatic consent. On the other hand, Prof. Manley Hudson, Harvard University expert on_international law, who recently visited Shanghai, gave out a state- ment before departing for apan, stating that the unique irresponsible character of the Municipal Council made it dangerous to permit its de- ciding grave international questions. (Copyright, 1927.) Runs Auto on Acetylene Gas. 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