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ANARCHY AT NANKING.
. ¡Foreign Quarter Sacker!.
líAnglo-American Action.
I Warships Intervene.
?. Shanghai. March 2fi. ¡
lt: ie authoritatively stated in unofficial i
eirelc'sj <tjiat. more than 1(H) Americans ano"
20 Britishers were murdered in Nanking, ;
itK-idejntal to the occupation of the town I
by tb* Cantonese forces. ' The United j
Stales;, British, and Japanese Consulates !
were iotaiiy dertitoy.êdîv fA#14'lie^ôroignç ;,
ers who were skrôii iverpïutçtff iröni es»jl
cape.* «. JL;- . á^**.^'
Thfiee warships, including two Amer:- ;
can, vjero compelled to bombard Nanking '?
for twen'.y minutes in order to resi-ue ;
sovcrSi hundred foreigners who were ;
nie na (fed by moos seeking to kill them. '?
Auitfiätlie inrt»?.ce \.}iP. ^.r.itisji Consul;-..'. MY;..-¡
<îi3rs,>w:is -kiWed. íin&'fi ffliisular.<».VcíU;iie\
Was wounded, -pr"..¿¡} ni 1,1 Jj..a.noií officeV, ;
. and a* Japanese iii;iiiíií;.'''Were' «W killed.'|
Tiie British an;! American- .consulates '.
were footed.and; wiri:'ljcd". by ^IIOIJJS. ¿ind j
the entire water iront, 'was 'burnra. . ¿A. !
tremendous fire is raging at I'ukow, 'ob :
the opposite bank of ¡he ^angtsp.. Forty-.j
live. Ajinei-ican women'.' tweïiïy 'children.!
and ninety mvii- were .ret-eued. by, blue- 1
,i« ck riffs and despatched to ' Shanghai in;
special steamers.;:- . r ?>. .. -, «[
Trouble 'first st a vt ed *n Nanking when-'
souicS Nationalist jrrejgujeir» penetrated i
thc eily \wii!s"yesterday. They engaged. ;
tue reiterating Nonh.-'rnors. who indulged ;
in intrusive l-toting. prior to eraciuiing :
(iio town, commencing on t-iio wa te rf robt, I
anti forking (in\v;¡:'üV.. ,,A. larg«, nuiiibeiH
i;f foreigners lied ip the face of an In- :
(ciisejy hostile mob; .?tito": lie majority' hid i
in the warehoiiKc .<.f ,the.,.St-9W«ard,'Oii i
- Com pliny, llefii'îi-lisg- (be. Bri ti-: Ii . cousin .
laic, iii obs immediately looiVfl t he"' place.'
The Consul remoíist-ííited.' .aad-'.Vvtfs'ifired/i
at. fie has ti Ly evacuated (,he <ifiioc. with ;
his é-rtáff. ' Thc Amêrîéalî eonsiiiatc." ail-'j
joining the British.' Vccc'ivo'd it «S'inüáu'-'¡
fate. A íiioii.foirówédí'the-Mieiireatiug'!
foreigners to tho wa re'ioiisc wliou'.iug: ;
"Kill The foreign deyjisV.', ..I?r,o,njÍRCuo-Hsj
shooti'ug then commenced. Elsewhere in j
none Help
Hie city Chinés»» (róbps.Miéiíring (he fir-'
ing. became alarmed anil opened lire bu
nn.vl hing ¡and jereryihing..." Their OpcláL'
tiona Vf&aviité ihn- wwer.ieoi.it- eonîtogr;*'
iiion. ? T,hfi. .IJjJüjed Si a (??,s..,i djßsir»)}« rs.
Nonacid lVcston". und Ito? Bri.ijsh warship,
Enior|¡d. aiichoro»! jVff thc shore.observed
distress signn's from tba warehouse,
wjiicii wax siii rou'nried" ;hy mobs,"and 'iii'-",
tervoued with tWw 'giurst". '" '.'.'
Bullers-coni.imi.'iily penefrated the walls
of thc*;warehouse, and preparations were
being ^iiadc hy a iji.oj* :o burn-.tjie build;
ing. Whèif thc wii Chips' beinfia'rd«»d "the
city, A Simultaneously a .lapane.se gun
bnîu lauded «OHM. «wrtoc#(,..-ian«.r iftw' wa«.
ju.stan4.ly killed. Three desi myers used^
ma ch ¡fte guns,, and. high oyilnsive. shells,]
directing tlje tiri» at.,)h/;.,1fon'l of, a, ^ILiii:
front "of {he"wgre'lionsp^ whore the .mobs-,
ivere Abngr'egated.'T>HvVr'.->>Kin;Ç:in;to flemón
of '.he! guns, caused, (he mobs' lo flee. IM»«?.
«'.Mente ot'.fhe «ïa ni age donc bj the. firing.!
ia'nor^ known. ... .. ',. .... ./'
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