The narratives of the refugees who have reached Shanghai make
it clear that the retirement of the Shantung army from Nanking was quite unexpected. The foreigners had not yet begun to think seriously of taking precautions for their own safety. Moscow, true to type, has been issuing protests against what is called " the new war against China begun by foreign cut-throats."- The workers of the world are urged to impede in every possible way the sending of fresh troops to China by " civilized barbarians, headed by English and American robbers, who have just killed thousands of Chinese workers at Nanking." The result of the terrible experi- ences at Nanking is that the remaining foreigners in the Yangtze towns are as far as possible being withdrawn. In the House of . Commons on Wednesday Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Great Britain, the United States and Japan were consulting as to the form in which it would be possible to demand an apology, and perhaps reparation, from the Kuomintang.
