Show CHINESE fIRE ON OS DESTROYER Three British Warships Battle Attackers 3 Americans Saved SHA SHANGHAI April 25 AP The P-The The i United Sti States Sies e. e destroyer Peary was wa I tired sired on yesterday n ni al' al on the the Yangtze about miles allIes east easl b bof of Hankos- Hankos The our e of tl tile e firing firing fir fir- firing ing was not located and the WarshIp warship warship war War- ship did not riot return the fire Three British warships warships the Mant Mantis Man ManS t ti s Keppel and engaged In ln ic 1 an ari Jh exchange of shots with Chinese batteries on the the south south bank bank of of the thc i Yangtze n near ar yesterday yesterday The warships let lei loose a. a a heavy bombardment after they had been beer 1 fired and soon soon silenced the thi Chinese attack tack AMERICANS SAVED American marines had t to come to the rescue of three Americans at t Hanko Thursday night when whet I Chinese pickets ets attempted m- m 7 th L to re re- re f I m- m 7 th L re re- re f mOe them to the headquarters headquarters' rt of 01 the general labor union from the thi Standard Oil company's company s ftc to Which h they were attached Fifty marines were landed b by the U. U S. S S. S I Isabel abel flagship of f f. f the Yangtze patrol The pickets said the union headquarters merel merely desired to question the men and learn their names flames s A A A. wireless message from Hank w says says' that military preparations are under way on the outskirts of pf the city ostensibly in anticipation of an attack by General Chiang Kai shek leader the of 01 the moderate section of or the Canto Cantonese se POlitical political political cal party who recently established a government at l' l for the announced purpose of combating the communist Influence There are about foreigners in Hanlow including ing sixty-eight sixty Americans Because of the tension in the city they spend the nights at atthe the waterfront almost under the guns of forty warships CHINESE SEARCHED American sailors and marines as assigned assigned assigned as- as signed to the task of ot searching Chinese entering Shanghai b by way yay of the Bund are finding many of them wearing uniforms under their clothes These are turned over to the police who seek to determine whether th their v fire cit refuge fr from m- m mth th the Chinese s sections ct or spies joining the red labo ranks Most of the Chinese are taking the search good General Gener l Sun Fang Chuan one of ot tile the northern commanders' commanders and nd Ig- Ig inal thai d defender fender of of Shanghai it it Itis is is learned from foreign sources has offered to surrender to General Chiang Kai shek leader of the moderate element of the tang Cantonese political political- p party and commander of the Cantonese army General Sun is declared to be ready to retire to private life Ilfe fe Ills His actual surrender it Is reported has been delayed because various generals under tinder him are holding out for better better bet bet- ter terms Sun is represented as stating that his his' trOOps ps after tl nt- nt ing for six months are tired and hungry RADICALS CAPTURED General Chiang's soldiers soldiers' have rounded up another batch of radi radi- cals They sought to arrest LIng I Chuen local radical l leader but iUt he learned of their plans and escaped A A sore score of of- his lieutenants were cap cap- tur d and m much ch literature re was was ivas seized at at headquarters which were ero locked later by the soldiers Headquarters of the moderate announced today that the communists at have raised huge sums of mo money ey fron varIo various s banks on the pr pretext text or circulating circulating cir cir- cir cir- notes Issued the by Central bank Dank but in reality to finance communist com corn propaganda especially inthe In Inthe Inthe the Shanghai I area It was also announced by the moderate te section of the that hat Sun Wen Ping ren notorious Canton Can Can- toO ton coI 1 leader re recently arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested on a French man mall boat was executed at at t Lun His wIre wife is said to have offered a bribe to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain his his' release April 25 5 CAP CAP- AP Two American submarine tender tenders and and a flotilla of submarines arrived h. h here re toda today |