The Archive · 1927

ANTI-BRITISH SHOW KIUKIANG

Soldiers Cover Property With Posters: Foreigner Assaulted An incident was created in Kiukiang on Sunday afternoon, when tmall_ parties of soldiers mutered the Concession and began [plastering Bund property British posters. "Mr. Munro-Faure, the A.P.C., stopped one soldier in the act of putting a poster on the gate of the Consulate, whereupon four soldiers assaulted him, When he blew his police whistle, however, the soldiers were scattered.

A protest was made to the Com missioner for Foreign Affairs, whé vacillated, and finally the posters had to be'removed by a naval party, INothing further resulted.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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