Despite the plans of labour agitators to hold a mass meeting and demonstration yesterday morning in memory of Chen An-dong, the hawker who was killed aboard the Japanese str. Banti Maru on August 8, nothing of importance occurred, the presence of the Muni-police having the artening the groups ibourers who collected in th vicinity of Thorburn Road, outside the Settlement limits, where it previously announced that the meeting would take place.
Ageording to announcements of the agitators the day before, the meeting was to have been held at 6 a.m, and in anticipation of this small groups of Chinese, amongst whom could be seen a umber of women of the student type, began to collect on the side streets, Both the Municipal and Chapei police had been informed on the previous day of the intended meeting and special details were sent out to riots and by the resolutions passed by various meetings of labour organizations. Copies of these hand-Dills have been scattered also in the central district,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.