Shanghai

Marines of all the great powers stood guard about the international city of Shanghai, last week, protecting its 40,000 white inhabitants from the defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. P: Routed Shantung troops pleaded and begged to be taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese transport, late in the week, for transport back to Shantung where they belong. P: Looting by individual soldiers of both factions in the Chinese city went on unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. P: Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls--the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term "world revolution" which was caught up and bandied by correspondents (see above). P: General Pai said to newsgatherers: "The Nationalist movement is committed to absolute religious freedom; and is particularly favorable to the American Y. M. C. A. which is helping Chinese youth educationally, morally and physically. . . . Under our regime all classes will enjoy civil equality, the rights of labor unions being especially safeguarded."