Show SEEN AS CENTER OF DISASTERS IN CHINA HISTORY Latest Incident Likely to Delay Amerie American n R Recognition cognition RECALL HISTORY City Often Capital of China Given Description B n DREW PE mOX Cop right 1927 1327 by Consolidated Press Press Association WASHINGTON 1 March March- uch 26 the scene seen of ot throe three cru- cru crucial cm cru crucial cial disasters In Chinese Chines e history now has hns added Its fourth the th b bat tic bit tie between Americans and ChI ChI- ChInese Chinese Chi Chines nese nes which probably will retard i American recognition 0 of the th Can Can- Can tonee nationalist Ro government R and Increase se the unwillingness of the tho powers Dowers to abandon their tor for for- eign n policed and controlled concession con- con cession celon Three times ha i ha-i been destroyed by Chinese Chines civil wars and strangely ely enough had It not been tor for this fact tact the gunfire of oC American and British battleships Would oud nov never nover r have hav held Chinese troops from reaching the th group croup or of Americans American huddled together on Hill last Thursday HISTORY HEC Two i thousand years year ago aeo two two- two thirds thirds of ot was raz razed d and I where a city 0 ot of a II million once one i stood tood there thor aro are now groves ot of bamboo and open fields famous for tor pheasant and ond wild hog bog hunting hunt- hunt Ing Ini- Ini Hill named att after r the Standard Oil company of New NewYork NewYork York Is one of ot the ridges on which many mony foreigners live and Is surrounded by the open fields field of the dead city Into these open fields the th battleships poured a barrage of ot shrapnel for or an our ancla halt keeping keeping- Chinese Chine troops at bay until the tho foreigners In the thO Standard Oil building could be rescued Had hail HUt Hill been surrounded b- b b buildings the th Chi Chi- Chi Chines noes nCe nes could have hav advanced under theIr shelter Almost In the 1110 lir center of ot the dead city stands lands the thc he new ne city elty ot of people crowded tOgether within the th usual Chinese wall Completely surrounding this thle newer wall wull all and ond also the dead city Is the famous wall wail ot of It Is the h largest In China Its Ita 70 10 feet teet of height and ond 30 feet Ceet of width eve eveS even surp surpasses the wall wait around the th city of ot re re- re Pe king kin FOREIGNERS Fn SCATTERED Between the wall and the Yangtze river lies Ham Hsia Kwan an the tho commercial center with torel n bonks banks warehouses and docks Thia Thiais Is not a foreign concession and although moot most mort foreigners nave 11 their offices here foreign forel n real resi resI- resI resIdents residents dents aro are scattered all over Nan Nan- Nankin Nan kin king II and antI vicinity This I 13 Is why this weeks week's disaster disaster disaster ter has hag such an Important bear bear- bearIng bearing Ine Ing upon the abandonment of for for- tor concessions Here Her for tor the first time tim foreign lives Ilves were lost At tankow I-tankow foreigners lived In own concession conee There was very serious at and at that time tim Chinese Continued l on Fag Hie Fise NANI SCENE OF DISASTERS C nl from Irone Page One Une I ties tIeR ma made e this to the foreign governments It If If you lOU had haJ hadnot hadnot not been concentrated In one area aren arenth th ho III Ill will wiIl of the mobs would not eec been upon you But Dut despite serious rioting no lives were wre lost at nor have there here been any lives lost at al ai Shanghai l Only Ony at where here no eon con con concession cession exist have bavo foreigners been murdered 0 PIT CAPITAL OP OF 01 has also alao caused the day to be postponed when It wag 51 waito to be the recognized capital or of China once onto again for the recent disaster will wilt probably postpone at least American recognition of or the Cantone Cantonese e nationalist government ant from Peking and C Canton has been teen seen se times tInie capital ot of or China and the Cantonese had hod plans plane to recOnstitute reconstitute tute It as such lIuch V V wan last capital of during the niga of or the two Mine Ml g emperors ning 2368 1368 A D and the tomb tombs tombs- of the Iho arc there Following the overthrow o o of the hated Man Man- Man Man-chus Manchu chus chu In 1911 Dr Sun Sen tat Yal went to the of the first Ming Mine em- em em emperor that China bad now treed freed itself from ite ll foreign rulers Although the 01 old 1 city of ot Nan Nan- Nan king king wan destroyed some 2000 years ago it was wall later burned dur dur- durIng during dur- dur during ing the Ming dynasty dynasty after which the capital wag WI wa moved mO to Peking Again iia re tate ate 11 a t lS 3 th the city WM WaS destroyed M during the rebellion V The Indu Industries of tIt the tie r- r city ty had made It famous for tor its lIs por por- porcelains or retains pottery satins and ad d final flowers nev never never 1 fully ruOy ro r recovered ov- ov ered erOd from rom the e SuccessIve dims dims- However Howeye Is still the literary renter center of ot C China lna and also one of at the great missionary renters Most of the he OO Ameri American can residents there therl were w rl mission missionaries nibs aries or In ranking aking nl uni university the national southeastern university of the tho Union Bible Dible school V V VV |