What a Typical Leaflet Says forced their way the Charge Chen and urged an immediate pro-room, Orders were given to drive them out, and in the confusion the men charged with the assault The crowd was with difficulty foreed out of the Station compound and retreated slowly, eastwards along Nenking Road, the police meanwhile urging them to disperse quietly.
When opposite Wing On''s store they: halted end adopted a threatening attitude, jand several of them assaulted White and Cole, the latter benvcked down while some of rowd attempted pistol from him. Thi now using sticks and but the crowd got id the Police to wrest his Police were batons freely, inoly beyond the Foreigners and making special efforts to wrest the arms from the foreign members the Force. AS the crowd were abou! t to enter the ation gate Inspector Everson eave the order to fire and the Sikhs and Chinese at the Station gate opened fire, killing four outright ud wounding a number. Six wounded were sent by the Police to the Shantung Road Hospital from Louzn Station, and of these three have since died. The men who were shot were undoubtedly. tudemte. The shooting had the immediate effect of dispersing the jerowd, and traffic became normal shortly afterwards, Political Move The fact that the real origin of ithe trouble is politi ical is amply demonstrated" by the following Pamphlet, one of the" many "die, tributed" by" the student demon:
"Brethren, Do iowa? And" of "Chinese foreigners have taken by making us bay 1 aking the Chines of Great Brit. and Japan has the icy "have levied the export develop: money Prom hele pods, th peerer day by eonecetone and change for The miftariets mere and buy they' can run and ammunition from them est famceent elt vil ware. whi their liver. labouring classes "and the workmen. bie among the taboure ict, and yet the pol fed the students. Who to Keo led For thelé_ re ice have arrest.
paid our Shu the station gates to the western entrance of the Wing On store. 'They did not strike a single blow in the first and second of the temporary retreats, but by words and threats forced' the students to retire gradually among the tram cars and motor ears, which were still able to creep inch by inch through the mass. As the congestion of trafic at Chékiange Road was so great, the mob could not. be forced back any further, and the reacting wave of humanity pressed to the front again, The valiant five could not withstand the pressure. Still not a blow was struck, One of the men went down and it seemed as though he would be trampled to death by the students, but he bobbed up again, got to his place before them, and determined as ever, urged for pence. The police swung their sticks in arear circles over the heads of the ringleaders but refrained from using them, knowing well that, if they struck, serious damage would result. Keeping perfectly calm despite the tre nous force pushing them howling and noise ied with every yard—the polic ied in Chinese with those in front to delay, There was no stop-ying, however, for those in th rear, who were of their seeming fut Lolder and bolder—nothing would serve but blunt and unmitigated force, Back Towards the Gate could seo them slowly coming back towards the gate, Inside the rote, the few foreign reserve, came to the road.
A few Sikhs with carbines followed them and to their rear were a handful Chinese with carbines, saw constables and sergeants use their sticks and batons, but they did not seem to make the impression on the crowd, plain-clothes officer, lacking" bute struck out with his tst fon a low straw hat which I thought sure he must lose, but he came out of each encounter, hat unsullied and still on his head, "The situation became tense and seemed as though the mob would again enter the station. Banners and pennants filled the air. The students with struck their chests and aris, and worked themselves into a mechanical frenzy through eyehologieal methods unknown to Westerners, but typical of the Indian dervish and' the primitive merican Indian medicine man, They shouted in thin, raucous tones their favourite slogan, forgetting nieanwhile all else, but Tarnng—"Shanghai dialect) and Dar (Man-rin)—Kill, strike, down with.
ote, It seemed like a mass Grill of murder, for as they shouted, they moved their hands in a wild rhythm, as though they were striking with a knife, The following official report was: issued on Saturday night:
At 155 pin. today, May 30, 0 report was received Lovza Police Station that students were making speeches of an anti-foreign nature and carrying flags with foreign sentiments at various Points in Nanking Road, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by the Police. Inspector Everson and a party of Europeans Proceeded to investigate and arrested three men, one of whom was actually making a speech to a crowd with two others standing by with flags.
On arrival at the Station, followed by a crowd, these students! admitted that the' speeches. were intiJapanese in nature and that. they had: arranged with students }of. other colleges. to hold meetings at varicus.points i the Settlement to protest against-the killing of Chinese workman. by Japanese at cotton mill in the Western Firing Inevitable "The police fell back to within Bhs a fow yards of the gate, Then Insp. Everson, commanding at the f-closed gate, who saw the futility of batons and fists, but coo! through-cut, at last gave the ordos carry, eu printed to ' shoot. A single shot was the result then an automatery wey s" toric got into action and I heard the the polteae Bolts of the magazine carbines the Spam deatere ar opium "hat the headquarters the Sette: licking and the subsequent shots. ly in the Prench There must have been, perhaps, 40 we wake up, shots fired. it was over almost immediately. With the first shot the rabble broke at the rear. Within a few seconds, Another panies was componed rat over hit a minute had, aged, a virulent atta ok upon the he street was cleat as. Zar yaeke and against. the Town Hall. I saw stour Japanese "oppression' in_ general. inese lying on the pavement. it set forth the lieged grievances Several; others stood. about, lof the mill oper iver, such as dis-/of surprise on. their faces, opine.' néssal without reason, assaults with fell where they stood, but the re-batons iron bare, manipulation ' mainder did not-seem to know What pay, and failure to carry out had struck them. With guns stilt Gre terms of the set: lemment of the exuding heat, the police' stopped big strike. from the compound and dragged the
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