FOREIGNERS IN NANKING.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17168, 26 March 1927, Page 5

FOREIGNERS IN NANKING.

— Preaa Assooistion-

( AmeiHal'.&a *£«5 Fr..a« Asnvsaifiiion.)

KOT ALL RESCUED. SOME ARE WOUNDED. MISSIONARIES WON'T LEAVE.

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— 'Oopyrigrbt.)

Received Friday, 10.45 p.m. SHANGHAI, March 25. The position at Nanking is still obscure. Last night's report that some of the naval landing party were killed are not confirmed, but a seaman aboard the warship Emerald was killed hy a bullet from the shore from which the ships were constantly fired on. A landing part^* hrought off thirty-one foreigners, hut still seventeen British are unaccounted for including the wounded consul and1 six marines, also 150 Americans,, comprising ninety men and sixty women and children. The naval authorities requested the Southern commander to issue immediate orders for the protection ,of these and provide an escort of reliable Chinese soldiers to assist evacuation, but no satisfactory reply had been received' up to early this rnorning. Nothing received by the naval wireless bears out local Kuomintang reports that there were two thousand Chinese casualties. As a matter of fact the naval fire was directed mainly hehind the hill, the idea being to provide a curtain of fire bewteen the forces outside the ciety who were shelling the hill and the foreigners, ot permit the evacuation. The American Admiral, Williams. has ordered drastic measures if necessary to effect the rescue of the remaindng Americans. The American Consul-General at Shanghai wirelessly hroadcasted a request to j all Americans in the interior to i leave immediately, and ordered the j heads of the mission at Shanghai j to recall the missionaries. ;