Towards evening of May 30 several! thousands of Red Spears suddenly appeared north of the city. They seemed to fear an ambush of the Mukden troops, so did not come around the city. All that "night again, firing continued, and the police did not Jdare to patrol. They however remained on the walls and at the Jzates and refused admittance Red Spears, bandits and.pseudonationalists ' alike. This period of terrorism continued for several lays, Open murders were com: mitted in the streets of the south suburb, On the niorning of the Btst a' man found near the gates! Jat the Canadian Church Bission: Girls' School, adjacent to the China Mission Hospital, terribly] pierced, and lying in a pool of blood, the work of the Red Spears. A few days earlier on the same street] a policeman was stoned to death.
On the last day of May Gen. Tien Wei-chin was invited from Lanfé by the Kaifeng Chamber of Commerce, to enter the city and maintain pence. This move was ac-Jeomplished, and the city rested somewhat from its fears, through the presence of the regular troops. It appears that Gen. Tion had forsaken his allegiance to the Fengtien leaders, and was prepared to yield control to the Nationalists when they should appear.
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