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Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
Since October Chang has been wringing $300,000 a month additional tribute out of Sun Chuan-fang, the comparatively benevolent despot at Shanghai, in payment for not attacking Sun in the rear, while Sun has been defending Shanghai from the Southern Nationalist (Cantonese) Army (TIME...
...Nationalist (Cantonese) advance upon Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) brought them a great victory early in the week when they captured and looted Hangchow, 113 miles from Shanghai, and put to flight the troops of War Lord Sun Chuan-fang, defender of Shanghai...
...Sixty-five thousand Chinese workers at Shanghai began a general strike to celebrate the fall of Hangchow (see above). Strike leaders nailed up placards: "The Nationalist force has been victorious. The power of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has ended. The time is opportune for the people to assist the movement against the War Lords...
...check the general strike at Shanghai, troops loyal to Sun Chuan-fang began to seize and behead strikers picketing in the streets. Excited correspondents variously set the number of strikers decapitated last week at between "46" and "1,113." The effect was to quiet the 50,000 workers, who remained on strike, skulked in their homes...