Show serious conditions in china are detailed detailed account of chinese atro aaro cites given by university head bombardment of by ameri can and british claimed necessary by JOHN POWELL copyright 1927 27 salt lake tribune ne SHANGHAI march 27 dr A J bowen bobea ot of kewanee ill III president ot of university tonight gave the tribune a detailed account of the chinese atrocities at dr bowen said flatly that the bombardment of by the american and british warships was absolutely necessary in order to save the lives of american counsel john K davis and his family and forty seven other americans who were marooned on hill there la Is absolutely no question in my mind he said that had the gunboats gun boats not bombarded nank I 1 csc all the americans marooned on hill would have been murdered and furthermore it would have been absolutely impossible for the american missionaries who had taken refuge in university to escape also I 1 will make tho the flat statement that it was the bombardment ot of hill by american america n and british gunboats gun boats which indicated to the cantonese command that the powers meant business and hence forced the cantonese Cant onest to agree to the evacuation ot of the remaining foreigners statement drafted dr bowen said he and three other american residents of 0 who went through the whole trouble drafted a detailed statement this afternoon atter noon which was handed to the press and cabled to america for publication in church papers in order to td acquaint church people with abe 0 circumstances of the disorders dr bowen was present when nationalist tion alist troops murdered murd dr J williams vice president ol of university ile he dc le crl cribb 1 the atrocity as follows 1 I was accod by harry clements of new jeaney university librarian G IF alliek of new york a faculty member mr M lampson a member ol of the fatuity of the mi Flonary lan langiano guano sch lial and W V P of if montari Mon Alon tari tala we were walking on the he edze edge or of continued on page eight serious conditions in china are detailed continued from page one the college campus when we ina nn heed what we thou glit to lu ho be ern shantung tro p looting and burning the he home of dr liast L iain also a member of the faculty we walked toward the daniel home when we were accosted by seven or eight soldiers wearing the uniforms q of the national cantonese army the soldiers stopped us and demanded our valuables which we handed over dr williams who was a noted chinese scholar and spoke the language like a native then stepped up and addressed one of the soldiers and protested the action victim shot the soldier immediately shot dr williams through the temple killing him instantly after which he robbed him taking averyt everything bing of value even stripping the clotel ing from his body at tile the same time another of the soldiers grappled with mr clement apparently thinking mr air clement turned over all his valuables the soldier then tried two shots at clements but owing to his ignorance of the operation of the pistol the bullets went wide other soldiers tired fired shots at zile me and other members of the party b but ut these likewise went wild after finishing robbing us and murdering dr williams the troops walked oft off unconcernedly chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog dr bowen said that the whole attack was against foreigners and their property chiefly missionary property it was apparently concerted movement which began simultaneously all over the city lie he asserted fifteen minutes before the trouble started dr bowen said members of tile the chinese red cross came a and nd told us that no possible danger existed in addition chinese members of the university faculty declared the crisis had passed and that the city had been occupied by the nationalist troops without incident but shortly afterwards the storm broke |