GRUESOME SCENES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 134, 7 May 1928, Page 8

GRUESOME SCENES

IN SHANTUNG CAPITAL. *

FOREIGN RESIDENCES LOOTED. NANKING OUTRAGES SURPASSED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) (Rocoived Alay 7, 1.5 p.m. SHANGHAI, Alay 6. A message from Tsinan the capital of Shantung, states that all the Japanese and other foreign residences have been systematically looted, amid gruesome scenes, except the central commercial quarter, which has been defended by Japanese troops. Alany women have been massacred and tho corpses show signs of brutal treatment.

The Nanking outrages of a year ago are nothing in comparison. Tho Japanese military casualties are officially reported at ten killed and 38 wounded.

A message to the American Consulate hero reports that all the British and American missionaries are safe. Japanese troops and the residents in their care aro concentrated in the central commercial quarter, which has been reduced to a state of siege, awaiting the relief of reinforcements marching from Tsing-tao on the arrival of whom, it isi expected, hostilities will again start.

The Southerners are absoutely beyond control and have even attacked Japanese officers proceeding through Tsinan-fu in automobiles to negotiate with the Chinese authorities. These officers were dragged from their car, tied with ropes and robbed, and were only saved from execution by the arrival of Chiang Kai-shek’s staff officers.