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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 9

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Screen of Women and Children

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DEADLY FUSILADE

SHANGHAI, April 15.

Shooting of extremists at Chapei, the native quarter, proved to be the most sanguinary slaughter in the Chinese struggle.

Hundreds of Communists, who had evaded arrest, made a determined attempt to rejoin their comrades, whom the Cantonese troops had rounded up. They intended to take them supplies of arms and ammunition.

The Communists attempted to rush the headquarters of the Cantonese under a screen formed by hundreds of women and children, including their own wives

These women and children the Communists pushed before them, thinking the soldiers would refuse to fire into the helpless mass. This hope proved to have been horribly unfounded. When the procession was within a few yards of the crates of the headquarters the soldiers opened a deadly fusillade. J wenty women and children-fell dead and many others were wounded. The Communists were deprived ./ heir arms. They have now formed a hatchet hnjrade and have armed themselves with crowbars, axe. and choppers They are determined not to surrender without further fijrhtin<*.