The Archive · 1927

Fiery Resolutions

About 60,000 labourers, radicals and agitators met on Sunday after-neon near the West Gate in an abortive attempt to stage a demonstration, which was intended to he!

potential threat against the International Settlement primarily and the French Concession secondarily. 'The crowd was in a bad mood. The Communist outburst in Shanghai at the beginning of last week had led them to expect great things, but they were foiled through the' adequate defensive movements of the Shanghai Defence Forces.

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