Very little information is avail-Jable about the situation at Hankow Jwhich had taken on threatening aspects a few days previously, but it] is said for the interest of mariners, that the river is rising rapidly and that the least depth below Hankow is now 20.9 feet.
All women and children are now, Jevacuated from Woosung, the Argus keeping in close touch with that point, and the Cricket standing by Jat Chang Wah Pang.
With river shipping in its pre Jsent stale-mate and with an already reported need for convoys for foreign merchants vessels making the run, British ships have now been authorized to return fire in cases where merchant ships are being sniped on the Yangtze and to inflict severe punishment provided the offenders can be found, Admiral Li Calls on Pittsburg.
Admiral Li, a member of the staff lof Adm ug Shu-chuang, Com-getting on the were not forced to pay the exorbitant prices that} the first British refugees had to pay to get their luggage ashore. The: men organized in the Standard Oil Jcompound and chartered lighters to take the luggage to the ships. pose of informing Admiral Williams that General Chiang Kai-shek would pay a call upon him the following day for the purpose of discussing arrangements. to preserve order in Shanghai, Instead of a visit yesterday, how-fever, General Chiang Kai-shek sent, Jo note to the American Admiral informing him that he regretted having to postpone proposed interview. Reasons for the change in plans were not disclosed,
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