BRITAIN'S FORESIGHT.
Received Thursday, 11.56 p.m. . SHANGHAI, March 24. For three days the Cantonese say the city was deluged with an orgy of bloedshed, murder, incen diarism and wanlon destructior mostly of Chinese lives and prc perty.. Hundreds of criminals wer . freed when the prisons were seied and the inmates allotved to rr ! amok to celebrate the Natior- -'ist ievictory. The latter disclaim "any I connection with the gueriila element whose tactics are regarded as the chief factor leading to the capture of Shanghai by the Nationalists- by appealing to the Red commander to surrender the city. The correspondent adds: "Britain's foresight in sending a strong force. to Shanghai saved it from a worse I fate. The local police and volunteers j and even the allied navies . would j not have been able to cope with the maddened mohs or have prevented them from overrunning the settlement ip ,a welter of destruction " . /
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 5
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152BRITAIN'S FORESIGHT. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 5
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