On one day a company of troops were marched in and made to sit} down in the road in front of the] British Consulate, while a member} of the Propaganda Bureau delivered -|a speech about imperialists, the ex-Concession and Chiang Kai-shek. The whole obviously deliberately area of face to the British flag, and it is much to be regretted that the authorities allowed the insult to go} by unnoticed.
The troops continue to oppress the people. In broad daylight, a soldier was seen rummaging inside a junk which was lying alongside the foreign Bund. "He called to a comrade} and the two of them pulled a sack] of rice out of the junk., The soldiers} declared that the export tax on the rice had not been paid. The junkman declared it had been paid, There are properly appointed rice-tax spectors and the matter was 0 which did not concern the soldiers fatal. The tax question was merely used by them as an excuse. They Impounded two coolies and marched! off with the sack. A clear case of done openly and avithout
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