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Shanghai Procurator: Protest to Admiral Yang The object of this move appears to have been that the Chinese authorities had. captured and. were holding a cargo boat carrying quantity of opium and an attempt! was to be made to get it back This the raiders succeeded in doing, after a sharp exchange of shots with those guarding the opium bos Ind the soldiers and cargo returned to. Woosung.. The encounter. tool Place just off the Chinese Bund, and] for about half an hour caused something of a panic in the im-Imediate neighbourhood. Shops were frurriedly closed and tram car and other traffic along the Bund was iapended. while the fight was. in progress. A squad of Chinese police Appeared on the acone and, says one' report, "attempted to persuade the soldiers not to commit any mis-
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