"Gee, we're glad to be back in Shanghai," piped up a young Amer-icon school-boy shortly after the U.S.S. Sacramento, with 25 American evacuees on board, had tied up from Tsingtao at the U.S. naval buoys. His parents and other members of the party delivered themselves of somewhat similar sentiments. The Darty of Americans were evacuated, from Tsingtao on Tuesday morning in the gunboat, upon instructions from the United States Department of State, Washington, through the U.S. Consulate.
Tsingtao, members of the party told the "North-China Daily News" representative who boarded the Sacramento, gives one the impression of being on the edge of a volcano which is liable to erupt at any moment. Business is practically at a stand-still, and most of the shops have put up their shutters and closed their doors.
A body of about 5000 Chinese marines landed almost simultaneously with the blowing-up of the Japanese textile mills, and has assumed partial control of the area. A great deal of looting was still going on when the little American party left, and daily Public shootings were a common sight.
Some of the members of the police force were not above indulging in a little looting themselves from time to time. Two or three policemen would enter a house, shots would be fired, and the police would then leave, having "rescued" the inmates Of the house from some looters. Sus-Picious bulges under the coats of some of the policemen, however, pointed to another version of what had happened, members of the American party said yesterday.
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