Questioned as to his in Shanghai, Major Hilton Johnson' a visitor when the so-called Mixed Court Riots took place. He twas also present as a police officer in 1910, 1918 and 1919 during four or five small riots that took place in those years. Owing to the length of time that had elapsed, he was afraid he could give no details, but he -could definitely testify to the quick and sudden change of temper on the part of Chinese mobs when they were worked up by. agitators or other means. He had personally observed on several occasions, and had been impressed with, the danger there must be such' times, and he had no illusions whatever og to what a mob would do in that frame of mind, if allowed to get out-of-hand and it were not dominated by authority.
This concluded Major Hilton-Johnson's examination-in-chief.
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