The Archive · 1927

A Bevy of Posters

As one enters the Shanghai North Station these days, he is struck by' the numerous posters and placards whick have been pasted on the walls, both i wi outside the anniversary and they contain the "Down with. Imand the Settlement!" "Overthrow Communism!" "The May 30 spirit shall never di revolutionary movement!" ete, the others are of " decidedly anti-British and anti-Japanese nature, One reads that those responsible for the distribution of these posters are the Political Council, Ist Army; the Political Council, 2th Army; the united Reorganized Labour the Shanghai Special Branch the Kuomintang; the Shanghai Nanking Railway Political Couneit of the posters shows a lying, helpless, on block, which purports to be' the Shanghai foreign concessions, and bleeding from dagger wound in the side of the body, supposedly having been inflicted by a Japanes, who is trying to get away. "Standing beside the wounded Chinese, is a British "Imperialist," who! in holding a sword in one hand and srixping his Japanese comrade with the other, A. cruiver is behind, Jeleared for action. Another placard shows a Chinese lying, helpless, on the ground, with a British soldier standing above him with a rifle and bayonet in his hand as though in the act of Killing

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