The taking of the evidence of Chief Detective Inspector Thomas Patrick Givens was then resumed. 'Most of the reports made by wit ness were, he said taken from information' given to him by foreigners and Chinese, and invariably the inform: was iven soon after the particular vent to which it referred had ken place.
Mr. Macleod (examining) asked C.D.L. Givens to refer to the diary of events prepared by witness and te quote incidents which tended to show that there was any connexion between the students and labourers, who made himself particularly **rike strikers or any persons of that kind. prominent, As the students under Witness thereupon read extracts arrest were being taken to the irom the diary concerning strike station, this young man caught happenings which occurred between held of their arm and walked with February 9 last and May 30. He them, waving a flag and shouting. instanced meetings of strikers and The crowd, continued witness, was moving until about 8.15 p.m. After then it same exceptionally dense. Tt comprised a number of groups, with spaces in between. Witness. at this stage particularly noticed five or six Sikh policemen and, he thought, a foreign officer with them, going up towards the station, the crowd following close upon them and pressing them. The police had their batons out but did not seem to be striking anyone, simply trying to keep the crowd back, Mr. Cameron, continuing, said heard the firing but did not see it. Just before the firing witness from his position on the Library. steps, saw a crowd come out of Kweichow road, being urged on by Chinese, This crowd—turned along Nanking Road towards Louza station. Immetiately after that the firing took place. 'The crowd was pressed right on' to the police, and apparently came up with them on the pavement outside the entrance. There was a rush of six oF seven yards, and as the crowd surged forward it left behind it, witness noticed, a space.
Questioned as to the behaviour of the crowd, witness said the only thing he could say, was that he thought the crowd was rushing on the police. The noise was tremendous, and reached its-climax as the rush took place, How far were the crowd from the police—They seemed to be on top of them.
In reply to Mr. Macleod witness said he could only say approx.- mately when the fiting took place. He looked at his watch when he was passing the Race Course, when it was 2.40 pam., but did not see the time in until after the shooting. t Chinese Witness The first Chinese to give evidence next wont into the box. This was Wang Teh-sei, a sergeant in the Shanghai Municipal Police force. On May 20, he said, ho was the Chinese sergeant on duty in the charge room at Lena station. Whilst he was there in the afternoon it was reported that speeches were being made by students at the corner of Lloyd Road and Nan-King Roud. The report was passed on to the Inspector in charge, who gent some policemen to the spot. About 10 minutes after that the police, Indian and foreign, brought back about 20 students." A little later more students were brought 46 altogether. Their meetings of students, and also meetings at which students address. sed crowds. of strikers and work Feople. In particular, there was a meeting on May 18 inst at which students addressed some strikers and urged them to avenge the death of a comrade, the agitators meaning the Chinese named Koo who was injured in the mill riot of May 15 and who died two days later. Then, on May 20 students from the "Shanghai University addressed a meeting of 200 cotton rill workers. "Again, on May 27 meeting was held at the Ta Tuli Middle School at which a resolution was passed to take measures to secure the release of arrested students, if they were not liberated by May 80. Among the schools represented at the meeting were the Great China University, 211 Ferry Road, and the Shanghai Universit Seymour Roqd. All these meetings added. witness, were held outside the International Settlement, mostly in Chapel.
With the object of illustrating the connexion which existed previous to May 30 between the students and the Communists, C. D. I. Givens then gave an' account of the raid which he personally, conducted on the Shanghai University on December 9, 1924. Witness} described the seizure of Bolshevistic literature, and said that he saw on the walls of the dormitories photographs of the leaders of the Russian communist party. Tt seemed obvious that among the subjects studied by the students was Russian. Witness also read extracts from the diary] the students of the University other ies, and referred service held on February 8 last to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Lenin. Amongst these present 1 the service were Zau Lik-ty. former President of the Shanghai University and editor of the "Slin-Auopao," Yuin Dai-ying, a teache of the Shanghai University,—the acting Soviet Consul in Shanghai and many others connected with evict activitied,
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