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...Since success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
Above the Yangtze Rapids, at Wanhsien, a British river gunboat expedition penetrated in sufficient force to intimidate the local dictator, General Yang Sen, who was prevailed upon to release two British river steamers recently seized...
Deadlock. Meanwhile the British auxiliary warship Kiawo, a mere, armored river steamer, lay beside the captured vessels, covered at point blank range by the Yang artillery. To break this deadlock, intolerable to British amour propre, H. M. S. Cockchafer and H. M. S. Wigdeon, both river warships of the highest armament, steamed close to shore, drew the fire of the land batteries and shelled the city of Wanhsien...
...three British warships steamed close to the captured British merchantmen, in an effort to rescue their officers and passengers. The Kiawo steamed under the lea of the Wanhsien and effected a rescue of all Occidentals on board after a hand to hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard and all swam to safety despite the pot-shotting of Chinese riflemen. The British ships then withdrew...