The Archive · 1925

Students To Blame

Questioned by Mr. Macleod, witness said that he first noticed anything untoward in Nanking Road at 330 p.m. There violence before the cheer went up. There was no action on the part of the police to explain the change of attitude on the part of the crowd, He thought the students _incit the mob to violence; there was. nothing else to account for it.

Asked by the President if he had any objection to his evidence given at the Mixed Court being conjunction with the Inquiry, witness replied in the negative, pointing out that when, in the earlier proceedings he said that the students were looking for trouble he meant they left the protection of the Town Hall and side roads and began an advance on Louza Station no response from the President's invitation to question Mr. Westnidge, whose evidence accordingly concluded.

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