Marines of all the great powers stood guard about the international city of Shanghai, last week, protecting its 40,000 white inhabitants from the defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. ΒΆ Routed Shantung troops pleaded and begged to be taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese...
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