The Archive · 1936

NIGHT VISIT

Passes Through with Wife on Way to Nanking Gen, and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek passed through Shanghai at about 1230 am. on Saturday in a special train from Hangchow on their way to Nanking. The distinguished couple had completed a brief holiday Fenghua, Gen, Chiang's native village.

Although the special coach, which started from Hangchow at about 930 pan, stopped at the Markham Road Station only for a brief moment. order to allow the shunting of the train from the Hangchow-Shanghai to the Shanghai-Nanking line, rigid pre cautionary measures were enforced at the North Railway Station, the Markham Road Station, and other small stations in Shanghai, Members of the Pouce Preservation Corps, with drawn pistols, were posted over'a wide area around the st A group. of civic and military officials visited Gen, and Mme. Chiang at Markham Road Station

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