Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1927-03-11 | Page 6 | 600 Naval Men Land in Shanghai

100 NAVAL MEN LAND SHANGHAI BLUE JACKETS QUARTERED IN COTTON MILLS IN READINESS READI-NESS FOR EMERGENCY Cantonese Pressing on to Soochow and Threaten the Railroad Communications Shanghai A force of 600 Japanese blue jackets was landed in Shanghai and quartered in the Japanese cotton mills in readiness for any emorgency. The city itself was quiet, with chief Interest centering on the fate of Soochow, Soo-chow, where General Chang Tsung-Chang Tsung-Chang has arrived and is busy strengthening the position of northern troops against the Cantonese, who have been steadily pressing on that city in the hope of cutting the Shang-hai-Nauking railway. Although military reports received from the field were vague and conflicting, conflict-ing, some of the details strongly indicated indi-cated that a resumption of the Cantonese Can-tonese pressure on Soochow had placed that city in a perilous position. It was reliably reported that the Cantonese Can-tonese had passed Wukiang and had reached a point five miles below Soochow. Soo-chow. Civilian traffic no the Shanghai-Nanking railway has been suspended because be-cause of the military concentration going go-ing on whereby the Shantungese commanders com-manders hope to protect this, their main artery of communication.