Mrs. Graicie, who anyed in Shanghai on the last train before the line was out, said yesterday that Hangchow had been in a seething and unsettled condition for more than a wee fon the qui vive awaiting fresh developments, Chinese refugees flocked from the city and some foreigners left as well. The train which brought her to Shanghai, was packed."
/hua's subordinates claim they held defensive positions.
Both sides are short of ammunition.
Marshal land other military leaders yes: terday discussed precautions in connexion with the arrival Marchal Chang Tso-tin in Peking. Some of the latter's bodyguard are already on their way from Tientain, with events in Chékii ie, all munications with Hangchow havi been cut off. Whether the Cantonese vanguard has actually arrived in the city nobody appears to know for certain, but it appears to be pretty well established that Ge Chen Yi, Civil Governor of the province, has tendered his resignation and come to Shanghai.
Gen. Hsia Chao: former Civil Governor, is reported to have returned to' the provines, having come back from Japan, He was, it will be recalled, reported after the recent futile coup d'etat to have been murdered by his subordinates, but this has since proved to be untrue.
Meanwhile, Gen, Chiang Pei-hsi. former Tuchun of Chekiang, has been invited by the people to assume responsibility for the mai tenance of peace and order.
Local _Kuotaintang propagandists assert that Gen. Chew Feng-chi, commander of the Sr¢ Division, who recently visited Chuchow to' con-for with the Kuomintang military leaders, has accepted and assumed the command of the 26th Nationali Army and that he has established his headquarters at Fuyang, town about 25 miles away from Hangchow. The same people say that Gen, Chow's men are marching on the provincial capital.
Troop movements continue local-Ig, large numbers of men, including the S8rd Regiment, the only force fined in Shanghai. has been despatched (awards Sungkiang and Kashing. The ADied command slong the Shanghai-Hangchow Rail Tine has been vested in Gen.
Chao-yueh, who has arrived -Changan, where - headquarters uve been established, Tt was rumoured for three or four days that the line would be out and officials told their foreign friends that they did not know. when it would be done, but that it was inevitable, and ' Mrs. Graicie was told that the train she came on would probably be the last, At Wangtien—their -train was delayed a half hour to permit troop train to go southward Thi trai was also fully Yoaded, with rifles and gaily-caparisoned officers in com partments.
On the morning of her departure her husband saw many boats on the Chientang River carrying soldiers fully equipped, and several big guns. They were bound up the river, she was told. Just what this movement means has not been satisfactorily explained, although it might be that} they were some of Marshal Sun's loyal troops, who were getting out of the city or who had been ordered to put up a defence in the mountains.
It is reported that the telegraph wires were repaired and that tele-between been
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