An Anti-Foreign Riot; All Shots Fired in the Air; Students Not Involved in Disturbances The following has been sent to] tus as an authentic and official account of the recent disturbances at. Chinkian Inaccuracies and complaints of inaccuracies have appeared in the} Shanghai papers regarding the an-'i-foreign agitation in the outports. A plain statement of what occurred in Chinkiang may perhaps give an idea of the situation there.
cipal Council prepar mon The Consul and the British Mun-rations inthe Concession and, in order to guard against any serious consequences, removed the women and children to motor-launches in the harbour. This precaution turned out to be previo Jdential, for the demonstrations which actually took place in the] Concession were anti-foreign riots "Phe rioters were absolutely unprovoked. The Concession police had been previously disarmed and withdrawn to barracks; foreigners had been asked to keep themselves out of the way of insults which might precipitate trouble. In spite of these precautions, however, the mob saw ft to enter the British Municipal Council building, destroy everything that was in it and finally attempted to make!
bonfire of the house and furni— ture together. A neighbouring residence was entered and_partially Jooted, while a house a little fur. ther along the street was opened axes and all the furniture completely and wantonly destroyed. The whole Concession was in danger.
Seeing that the consequences were likely to be very serious, if not fatal to the community, the Consul attempted to put an end to the rioting by peaceful means, but} was finally foreed to leave' the matter in the hands of the British Municipal Police and a small party of foreign volunteers, who quickly feleared the streets.' The Consul himself was attacked and insulted before this was effected. No shots were fired at the mob. During the two engagements (for a second occurred when the mob attempted to recuter the Concession and to stone the police) 100 rounds of ball were fired, alf of it into the ai Before this, moreover, an urgent appeal for assistance sent forthe. military authorities. The police resorted to force only when became obvious that military assistance would come too late.
All the foreigners engaged agree that the student section of the demonstration had no part in the rioting. The students confined themselves to an orderly process sion to the Consulate, which is outside the Concession, and indulge ed in no violence at all. The mob consisted of riff-raff and never. do-wells with an eye to the best chance. Again it should be pointed out that, though the British Mfunicipal Council building was destroyed, no important documents for Municipal stores were lost these already had been removed to the temporary headquarters J on the Bund. a
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