Chinese Chamber Endeavouring to Raise Repatriation Fund It ix learned that the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce is making every effort to raise func for the repatriation of Marshal Ex Hsieh-yuan's disbanded troops.
Letters have been addressed to! local merchants and telegrams have been sent to various high officials requesting the Government to tak action in the matter.
The Wusih Guild has asked the anthorties to disarm the men and to hand their arms and ammunition to the various protection ary and volunteer forces for local defensive use. They ask also that the men be repatri instead of being enrolled in the armies of othe leaders and that steps be taken to relieve the suffering. people of Some 9,000 of Gen. Chen Yao-san's 4th Division have arrived in Pengpu fon their way to Nanking to join Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang's army, and those formerly under the command of Gen, Chang Yuan-ming (the defeated Defence Commissioner of Shanghai), have been sent to report. their homes, says a Chinese pres Sticking to Their Job Amid Violence, and Looting The Chinese railway staff resumed their posts on Thursday after an agreement had been arrived at, Jbetween the Fengtien leaders and the railway: authorities. 'The men have now returned to. their work along the line most of them having taken refuge in Shanghai. In the evening it was. hoped' to run through train from Shanghai to Nanking, the first that has made the complete journey for what is now a considerable them, but was found impossible as the line will probably not be clear.for four or five days.
Not by any means the least important factor which went to bring about the Russian Guard's peaceful entry has been the stubborn attitude fof these Chinese railwaymen who, thoroughly sick and tired of the bollying and unreasonable, demands of the military officials, refused to Tend the least assistance to the retreating troops of Marshal Chi This move has certainly been the salvation of a situation which might have been similar to that Which occurred after the flight of Marshal Lu, when a large and leaderless band retreated on the borders of the Settlement Inst autumn, out of which evolved the embarrassing state of affairs at Markham Road. The absence of any congestion of troop trains moreover gave the advancing. Russians a clear way before them.
The lot of a Chinese railwaymen during the recent war has been anything but a happy one, and during the present fighting one fireman was killed and, as far ax can be ascertained, four others are fat present seriously wounded. Many others have undergone the most exacting demands. One driver Intes the perplexing and terrifying situation where he wax besieged by 'a dozen soldiers with revolvers, half of them ordering him to drive fon, while the remainder were no less clamorous in their cries for him to stop. How these men have had the pluck to remain steadily at their posts throughout ly indeed worthy of praise and they have shown grit which far excel that of their brother warriors.
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