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Show sdvietThdwn in guise 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 Seattle, Wash A picture of soviet, Russia playing a leading role in the Chinese civil war drama was drawn here by Lieutenant Commander J. B. Timberlake, U. S. N., upon his return to the United States after two years in command of the Isabel, flagship of the Yangtze river patrol. "I have seen Kussian aviators over Hankow and Russian officers In Chinese Chi-nese uniforms on the streots," he said. "I have seen posters showing a Chinese Chi-nese being waited upon at the table by a Nordic blonde servant. It is no ecret that the United States la re-Karded re-Karded as an imperialistic government by the Chinese agitators. "I have hoard the drone of Russian airplanes flying low over the city of Hankow to drop bundles of antiforoign propaganda. At the recent Hankow disturbances I supervised the embarkation embark-ation of seventy-five American women and children on a boat loaned us by the British. If the Cantonese troops ever capture Shanghai, it is my opinion 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 hare. |