The Shanghai-Nanking express had not arrived in Nanking by noon yes: terday, and was reported to have been held up by various movements along the tine, No definite news could be obtained last night as to what had been going on between Shanghai and Nanking, though there were rumours in legion, none of which could be confirmed.
Numbers of armed Chinese who were reported to be members of the Paoantul, but who had the appearance of being men of the Bath Division of the Sth Army, with their identify cation straps removed, arrived in Shanghai and were sent off to various points ju the northern areas. Tt was also reported that men from the seth Division and the 87th Division come Into the Shanghai area had been detrained between Shar hal and Chenju. None of these re~ ports could, however, be confirmed, close guard being kept on oh potats, and Chinese officials being re~ Juetant to talk, pending developments in the negotiations for the settlement of the Hungjao Road shooting.
During the last few days there have been scenes in the North Sta~ ion unprecedented in any other Shanghai "war" or threat of wal Platforms of the station have been 0 crowded with refugees and other baggage that oMcials of the railway have been virtually helpless. A. re= presentative of the "North-China Daily News" visiting the station at} one of the rush hours—that is to say, Immediately before a train for Nanking was due to leave yesterday morning—saw thousands of Chinese and their families grouped round their piles of belongings, varying {tom anything between caged Peiping robing to articles of furniture of a somewhat intimate nature, 'Thieves' Gala Day Thieves and racketeers had stand day. Women's purses were snatched. Piles of luggage, left in charge of a few members of a family While the rest of them went out of the station to buy food, were ran: sacked by loafers who were prepared. {to shout down the real owners when they resisted them. The crowds were too great to permit, the police and the Peace Preservation Corps members who were at the station to do anything about. it, The confusion persisted in the sta tion, in spite of the best efforts of the railway authorities, until a late hour last night, and there seemed to be few signs of the crowds. being thinned out. Movements of rolling stock along the Nanking-Shanghai Railway were dim cult to trace, and there seemed to be exceptional move ments along the railway to Hang-oh Trains on the Shanghai-Woosung Railway ceased to run at noon
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