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Show SOVIET SHOWN II CHINESE WAR U. S. NAVAL MAN TELLS OF SEEING SEE-ING RUSSIAN PLANES HOVERING HOVER-ING OVER HANKOW If Cantonese Capture Shanghai Rioting Riot-ing Will Follow, Is Claim Made I i Seattle, Wash. A picture of soviet, Russia playing a leading redo in the Chinese civil war drama v.au drawn here by Lieutenant Commander J. B. Timberlake, U. S. N., upon his return to the United States after two years iu command of the Isabel, flagship of the Yangtze river patrol. "I have seen Russian aviators over Hankow and Russian officers In Chinese Chi-nese uniforms on the streets," he said. "I have seen posters showing a Chinese Chi-nese being waited upon at the tahlo by a Nordic blonde servant. It is no secret that the United States is regarded re-garded as an Imperialistic government by the Chinese agitators. "I have heard the drone of Russian airplanes flying low over the city of Hankow to drop bundles of antiforeign propaganda. At the recent Hankow disturbances I supervised the embarkation embark-ation of seventy-five American women and children on a bont loaned us by the British. If the Cantonese troops ever capture Shanghai, It iB my opin-' Ion that a reproduction of the Hankow riots will be seen there." Lieutenant Commander Timberlake. whose home Is in Raleigh, N. C, will await orders here. |