Poking, Feb. 24.
Thiv morning large' bodies of! troops belonging to General Shang: Chen and numbers of armed rauntcipal police were called out to pre-4 huge mass meeting which lad boon organized by labour bodies fur the purpose of demonstrating} al the Legation Quarter entrances in convection with the strike of the Loyation Quarter police. 'The streets bonering the—Legation "curter were heavily Jined. with Police and troops, while' the Lega-tun Quarter authorities put -on extra guards at all the yates of]
Quarter.
Woulibe demonstrators, how.
tithered at the headquarters of the Municipal Kuomintang jed to hold the demonstration in spite of the troops and police.
Shortly afterwards mob, numering several thous: aticmpted to force an entrance} thivcgh the Chung Wah Gate, which fs adjacent to the Legation Quuier, Tt appeared as if the and troops would be overpowered when the latter were order-fire one volley of blank shots. This threw the crowd into eon fusion und enabled the police and cops to gain the upper-hand, However, the situation is still full, of possibilities, asthe huge is still refusing' to disperse, A Quiet Day: Feb, 35, Police and soldiers alike kept vigil ihe night long zennd the Legation
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