"At the same time I communicated by telephone with General Chiang and was informed that he had strictly forbidden his soldiers to open fire and ordered them ini-mediately to keep away from the region occupied by Japanese troops."
'Arrangements were made for Chinese officers' cars to fly special flags and Gen. Huang went back to the city and stayed the night with Chiang. He says that his! office' was then seized' by the Chang Han-sze, the servant of Tsai Kung-shih, who was Commissioner for Foreign Affairs for Shantung, came to my office and reported that on the previous night, at 11 o'clock, more than 20 Japanese soldiers suddenly broke into his office, bound him and his whole staff of more than ten persons, shot them all, and cut off the cars and nose of the Commissioner. The servant jumped over the wall and thus made a narrow escape; he was fired at by Japanese soldiers, and was wounded in his body.
"The Political Affairs Committee in the Front is making investigation of the names of those thus murdered by the Japanese troops."
Arrival of Marshal Feng On May 5 Feng Vu-hsiang arrived in Tsinan and agreed with Chiang on plans for pressing on with the northern expedition, of which Chiang was to notify the Japanese General, Fukuda. Gen, Huang continues:—
Of the causes of the disturb ances, different explanations have been given. The Japanese naturally spread propaganda entirely favdurable to their side, But, according to reliable information received by us, the Japanese troops were the first to open fire, To ensure accuracy, the Nationalist authori ties have ordered the Chief of the Garrison Headquarters, the Chief of the Public Safety Bureau, the Ghief of the Bureau of Fetelgn Affaire and the effort to collect evidence to serve as basis for negotiation in the near Chinese Stop Fire When Order "On account of this outbreak, casualties on both sides were numierous. But our soldiers, after the Strict orders issued by General Chiang, never returned fire, while Japanese troops from time to time fired on ours, so that the number deaths on our side is many times more than that on the Jayianese side. Besides, as the Japanese fired into the streets, a great num: ler of pedestrians, who are powerless to resist the Japanese troops or to protect themselves, were killed, "The Nationalist forces have al: ready crossed the Yellow River; and nly a barely soficent number, of roans is Taft in Tainan to maintain order, "In the neighbourhood of the Commercial Area there is no longer a state of tension.
"As for other foreign nationale, they are all safe."
Gen, Huang concludes by saying that he has come to Nanking: to continue negotiations with Japan Srom there for a settlement,
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