Blood

P: Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them.

P: Fugitive Occidental missionaries from the interior of China, to a total of about 1,200, were at Shanghai, during the week.

P: Nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds ($4,600,000) were appropriated by the British House of Commons to finance the British expeditionary force at Shanghai.

P: WhenNorthern Chinese troops tried to enter the international city at Shanghai, last week, they were turned back by British "Cold Water Soldiers,"* standing motionless with fixed bayonets. Disgruntled, the Northern soldiers, mere organized bandits, turned back into the Chinese quarter and there began heartlessly to exact from helpless merchants a tribute set at $2,000,000.

P: U. S. blood was spilt on Shanghai soil as Chinese murdered Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marine Corps; police found his body later in the Whangpoo river.

* The Chinese interpretation of Britain's famed "Coldstream Guards," crack troops (TIME, Feb. 7).