The Archive · 1925

Strong Police Protection

'The Wu-Han Teachers' Associa tion, has held a meeting to-day, the results of which are not known yet, The various Workmen's Clubs and the Anti-Imperialist Society have also been active. That the agitation likely to assume a serious form shown by the fact that several foreigners have been assaulted upon the streets to-day. The police a the military are taking special me sures for the protection of foreignrs, both in Hankow and in Wuchang. Every foreigner who pat through the city is escorted by one or more policemen from the time he enters the gate, But in spite of this protection, one member of the faculty of the Central China University hal an unpleasant expo-nonce while passing through the streets this afternoon. At several points he had stones thrown at him, tone of which hit him in the face and caused a big bruise. Ho wi algo rushed several times and pummelled in the back, in spite of the efforts of hin guard.

Another foreigner, a lady, return ning from the Hanyang Gate in a ricsha, had stones thrown at. her, which' broke her umbrella and da: maged her hat Yesterday during the time of the procession but before feeling had become 80 intense, another foreigner and his wife had their ricshas stopped by the crowd, but they received no injury,

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