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Show CH INA'S G RE AT POHTJLFLAME EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI BY NORTHERNERS LEAVES THE STREETS OPEN TO MOBS Armed Forces of Several Powers 15,000 in Number Preteoting The Aliens 'Shanghai The native city o Shanghai, Shang-hai, China's greatest port and most important trade center, which fell into the hands of the Nationalists was seething with bitter street fighting and turbulent riots. Silting on the lid of the boiling cauldron caul-dron and guarding the 37,000 inhabitants inhabi-tants of the international settlement were 15,000 protective forces, including 1500 United States marines, backed by lie big guns of the large International fleet in the Whangpoo river. Several times the foreign settlement felt reverberations rev-erberations of the chaos reigning in the native city, but it was later quiet, with Its residents obeying the warning to remain indoors. The situation created by the precipitate precip-itate rotreat of the northern troops and the advance of the southerners was one of the greatest gravity for th foreign for-eign population and Us defesders. With a genera strike effective and the street filled with truculent natives, the position of the international, settlement settle-ment was fraught with danger. |