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Show Chinese Forces Now at Shanghai Shanghai Nationalist troops were virtually at the gates of Shanghai, Sunday, their advance guards having reached a point within ten miles of the city. The northerners apparently are not putting up resistance anywhere. any-where. Meantime there is feverish ac tivity In the foreign settlements. The barbed wire barriers lu the French concession on the border have all been closed. The main barriers of the international in-ternational settlement may be closed at any moment. Thousands of armed and unarmed soldiers are swarming through the country outside the foreign for-eign settlements, and every precaution precau-tion has been taken to keep them out. Indications were that there would be, no fighting close to Shanghai. General Gener-al Pi Hcu-Chen, the Shantung defender de-fender of Shanghai, it is rumored, has gone over the Cantonese. It is ttated that he sent n representative to General Gen-eral Ho Ying Chlng, the southern commander, com-mander, to discuss the conclusion of a truce, in order to avoid f shting la the Shanghai area. |