Monday, Apr. 11, 1927

At Shanghai

All China seemed focused at the pinpoint of Shanghai, last week, as marines of the Great Powers continued to guard the International City, and the Chinese Nationalists firmly consolidated themselves in the Chinese City a few rods away.

The week passed without Chino-Foreign clashes at Shanghai, while white missionaries streamed out of the interior, to be picked up and carried to safety by warships of the Great Powers continually steaming up and down such major rivers as the Yangtze. No Occidentals were killed in China last week but there were doubtful signs that the lull only proceeded a storm of international intervention.

While this storm was still in abeyance the Nationalists pushed their advantage and sent three armies rapidly advancing toward Peking which correspondents declared "certain to fall" on the strength of a doubtful rumor that famed War Lord Chang Tso-lin was withdrawing his forces to his great war base at Markden Manchuria.