Attempt Extortion Following Motor Accident Shanghai, Oct, 31, The uncertainty of life in Nanking is demonstrated once more in r6- ports reaching Shanghai yesterday to the effect that two British subjects, Mgssrs. MacAlister and Tweedie, have been detained by Chinese military authorities following a motor accident in which a Chinese soldier was injured. At 6 p.m. on Friday these two foreigners ran down a Chinese soldier outside the British Consulate and broke hi jann. Both were placed under arrest immediately and taken before the Chinese military officer in command lof Chinese troops at the British Con-late. There they were detained for four hours and released with in. structions to. obtain $2,000 to pay fas compensation, The car, the property of M. Jouvlet of the Post tice, is being held.
Mr. MacAlister told the military officer who detained them that. it would be necessary for the matter be settled through official chan nels, but in reply the officer declared Jit impossible to wait long and that unless the compensation was forthcoming within three days. could not" be responsible for his troops, which are of the Ist Army under Gen, Ho of Nanking.
On the same day another incident was recorded, when Mr, Hearne, engineer-in-chief of the' Tiontsin-Pukow railway, living at Puchi found upon returning to his ofeial residence that it, was occupied by troops. They refused to leave and [threatened violence. An appeal was made to the director of the railway who promised to try and got, the troops removed but there ts little hope entertained of any success this direction, Regarding the MacAlistor-Twoodio incident the British Senior Naval Oficer is making investigations Military Climb Down Shanghai, Nov, 1. inoing ye Bally taj Friday's incident in. Nankin
now been closed according to infor motion reaching here yesterday. An investigation was conducted by the British Senior Naval Officer, reports. from whom state that no indemnity to be demanded and that the motor ear in which Mr. MacAllister and Mr, Tweedie wore riding when the accident occurred has been released, The military have also withdrawn from Mr, Hearne's residence, Sevenat, seaplanes belonging to the Nationalist Navy have been brought to Shanghai, and will be transferred up the Yangtze inn few days for service against Tang Song-chi Tus "Shunpao" says that Me, V. Soong, former Minister of Finance in the Nationalist Govornmont, has gone to Canton to take up 1 similar position in a now government which is to be set up there, Gex. Pei Chung-h the local. issued a warning to th effect that persons 1g to be officers of the Northwestern, and" Northeastern Armi are in Shanghai, selling certificate of appointment and extorting money, from the people.
TANG Song-chi, according to" the Japaneve press, has sent thirteen subordinates to Japan to study military tactics. Mevtion_ also is tage of the fact that Feng Yuhsiang proposes sending u delegation for the same purpose.
Pei Chung-hsi, the local Gare risen Commissioner, has instructed Gol. Tai Shih-fu, Chief of the Public Peace Preservation Bureau, to take all necessary steps to" prevent undesirables and Communists from creating trouble locally, and to place extra men oh patrol duty. Gen, Pei has proclaimed martial Idw from 1. am, to hours all 'a.m. daily, during which communications are stopped. to establish a temporary bureau to, care for those without positions. and to mak use of their, services until [such a time as they have passed'th examinations,
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