POSITION UP-RIVER
NEWS MORE SERIOUS
INSTRUCTIONS TO WARSHIPS.
SHANGHAI, March 20,
(Received Morch 30, at 1.20 p.m.)
While Shanghai enjoyed another quiet day the news from up river is growing more serious. The evacuation of all ports in the Lower Yangtse is proceeding rapidly to enable tho gunboats to deal with violence in a drastic manner without injuries to foreigners. British warships on the Yangtee bad been definitely instructed that if British merchant ships are sniped upon the warships must return the fire and inflict the heaviest punishment on the snipers.
A Japanese naval lieutenant named Araki attempted to commit harakiri aboard the Japanese flagship as the Ensign was being hoisted. Lieutenant Araki was in charge of the guard at the Nanking Consulate when the building was looted, and had been ordered not to fight unless he was forced. His condition is serious.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 6
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