Only Minor "Demonstrations cellent Precautions The great communist demonstrations to mark the International Red Day in Shanghai, for which enemies of law and order hud been planning for weeks, resulted on August 1 in two small fracas in different parts of the Settlement and the arrest of 21 agitators of the student class. Police precautions in the s the French Concession, and Chinese territory prevented any. large crowds forming. Chinese Merchant Volunteers reinforced the police in Chapei.and troops patrolled the roads of the French Concession throughout he day. In the Hongkew district Japanese patrols Iso assisted in preserving the Peace The two outbreaks occurred in Foochow Road at 11.20 am, and at the corner of Tiendong Road an North Szechuen Road just before! 1 pin. During the former, police from Central Station arrested four} men, Louza police later arresting another in their district, while dure {ng the latter 16 were' taken into custody.
Reguias and special, police were on duty all day in the various Mations while patrols were strength. ened at all Important comers. so that, on the first signs of crowds collecting, word could be sent to the nearest station for more men, The Reserve Unit stood by in the Drill Hall in the Municipal building Foochow Road, and detachments of reserves were alto posted in Hong-ow, Lousa, and the mill district stations.
The first demonstration presented a strange spectacle. The agitators, most of whom were mere boys reed in long gowns over semiforeign clothes. Kept to. the pavements on either side of the toad, most of them in the shade in the Commercial Press. "They shouted slogans and shook their fists in the direction of the police, but it was Hoticeable that most of them took Bood care to be behind the others When they shook "their fats or shouted something particularly vile, Chapei Kept Perfectly Quiet Everything was quiet in Chapei, Nantao and the Chinese City and there was no semblance of 'a disturbance. This was due to-the special precautions which had been adopted by the Shanghai & Woosung Gendarmerie Commissioner land the Commissioner of Public Safely for Greater Shanghai, both of whom ordered "indirect" martial
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