CHINESE WAR

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 6

CHINESE WAR

FOREIGNERS IN TSINAN ANXIETY FOB SAFETY (Aoat. and N.Z. Cable). ) Shanghai, April 25. Nationalist reports have confirmed Die statement that Feng Yuhsiqng entered Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, on April 24, following the complete annihilation of A the Northerners’ Russia ti brigade. Chang Chung Cluing is fleeing/t-o the sea. / Reports from .Mukden state that Cluang Kai Shek rbpfti;ts the. capture of 125 cannon and 65,000 rifles. Considerable anxiety is being feP lor Gi.e safety of foreigners who, disregarding consular warning*,’ stayed in Tsinan, being there, it is believed, when the oitv.Tell prior to the arrival of sufficient Japanese forces adequately to protect all foreigners. Y 7 Ui.<Y - MISS lOXA RY KILLED Dr Walter Seymour, of the American Presbyterian Alisrion at Trining Fu, who has been' in the Southerners’ hands for ten days, is reported to have been shot and killed on April 16 or 17. The Nanking Government has Issued a proclamation for the protection of foreigners under Nationalist jurisdiction. NATIONALIST MANIFESTO OBJECTION TO JAPANESE Loudon, April 25. The Chinese' Nationalist Government lias issued a lengthy manifesto debouncing the i entry of Japanese troops into Shantung and \i appealing to' the Powers to support it against it he violation of China’s integrity. Unofficially the protest is based on the belief that Japanese troops have , been used for the purpose of helping the North.