23 OCTOBER 1926, Page 2

Shanghai has narrowly escaped a dangerous rising. The Times correspondent

says that the Cantonese in despair of defeating Sun Chuan-fang in Kiangtsi, organized . a revolutionary plot. in Shanghai. A. monster meeting of students, called together ostensibly to protest against the bombardment of Wadhsien, was to be the signal for a general rising. During the rising 4,000 troops were to march on Shanghai along the Hangchow railway. 1./r. V. K. Ting, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, discovered the plot, cut the railway south of Shanghai, hurried all available troops to meet the attackers, and warned the students that if they attempted to make any trouble the police would fire on them. The result of this deter- mined policy was that nothing serious has yet happened.