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April 15, 1927

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CHINESE WAR HALTS AS SOUTHERN CHIEFS GATHER AT NANKING; This Is Taken as Further Proof of a Deal Between Chiang and the Northerners. MILITARY RULES SHANGHAI Power of Red Groups Is Broken, With Their Arms Seized and Their Unions Suppressed. GENERAL STRIKE A FAILURE Raids on Communists Came After a Reported Payment to Chiang by Chinese Merchants. CHINESE WAR HALTS; CHIEFS AT NANKING

By Frederick Moore.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times.by Frederick Moore

General strike at Shanghai fails

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BRITAIN WOULD CUT SIZE OF SUBMARINES TO END CRUISING; Paris Hears Proposal Will Be Made at Coolidge ThreePower Conference. SEEKS BAN ON U-BOAT TYPE France Is Said to Be Willing to Limit Total Submarine Tonnage to 90,000. OTHER NAVY PLANS OPPOSED Washington Experts Favor Retaining 10,000-Ton Cruisers Permitted by the Existing Treaty.

By Edwin L. James.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

Britain's submarine and cruiser plans

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Notable Births

Robert Mills (physicist)

1927Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (died 1999)[†]

Robert Laurence Mills was an American physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory.

Notable Deaths

Gaston Leroux

1927Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (born 1868)[†]

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.