Show CANTON TROOPS Sf START ART DRIVE ON CITY Of Attack on ls Is Diverted Di Di- W Is Reported Re Re- ported Captured SHANGHAI March larch 5 United The Press Cantonese army aImy today diverted its attack from flom and launched a drive for the city of northwest of Capture of was reliably reported is almost on a line between between be- be tween Shanghai and nd apparently the nationalists were attempting attempting at- at tempting to cut communication between between be- be tween the two cities further isolating Isolating Iso Iso- lating the forces of hang Chung Chang in the Shanghai district General Chen Da Ba Yuan ally of Ch Chang ng Tao Tso Lin ae reported report report- ed cd to have gone over to the Can Can- Marshal Chen Ting Yueh governor gover- gover nor ot of yesterday esterday was reported re- re ported to have joined the Cantonese Canton Canton- ese cutting communication twe n Chang Chung Chang's Sh Shanghai n hai defense de- de defense force and the main armies of Chang Tso Lin in the north STRENGTHEN LINES Capture Capture of by the Canton Can Can- ton se would male make the Shanghai situation precarious and British troops in the seaport started I strengthening their lines with ra- ra chine gun emplacements ev evry ry yards sand bag breastworks ana anu pointed stake stockades The rhe British apparently did not intend intend in- in tend to reply to the Chinese pro pro- protest test against action of British and Italian HaHan troops in taking positions outside the foreign settlement The foreign commissioner told the United Press that the pre presence pres- pres ence of troops outside of the settlement settlement set set- had aroused the bitterest feeling among the Chinese U S. S MARiNES PARADE Twelve hundred United States marines paraded through crowds of flent Chinese and cheering foreigners foreign foreign- ers in the foreign settlement morning It was the first display iJ la ot of strength by the American forces lorcE's sn the conc n of foreign troops in Shanghai be began an LONDON March 5 United The Press labor unions of Shanghai Shang- Shang hat hai sympathizers with the Cantonese Canton Canton- ese cause toda today laid plans to resume resume re- re sume their general strike in the Chinese Chi Chi- nese city when word is that the southern forces are ad the Daily News correspondent re- re ported The general labor union a statement announcing that the strike call only awaited word of the Cantonese attack the correspondent correspondent corre- corre said A pamphlet urging workers not only to strike but also to obtain armies from defeated northern soldiers sol aol diers diera was reported to have been discovered by police The work workers rs called a general strike recently but canceled it ft after business had been tied up for several days |