Story of The Firing Or a Crowd Temporarily: Suppressed by the Censorship Another serious. shooting affair ts} reported to have taken place in Nanking.on November 22, the full details of which, owing to the Nationalist censorship, have not [come to hand, From reports available, it appears that, on that day, the populace were celebrating the victory of the Nan-King armies over Gen. Tang Sengcb, the Hunanese militarist. "A procession was formed-by. those who took part, and the main streets of] the city were marched through.
What exactly: happened after that ig not known because reports differ. /The: processionists, however, proceed-along. the-road, demonstrate they went... One report has it that] the soldiers: fired first on the mob [and killed a.man and a woman and wounded two-other men and four children: Another account "states that radicals in the mob fired on the spectators or that some Communists among, the spectators opened fire om the demonstrators: to show their dis approval of the celebrations and their support of Gen. Tang, and] the result was that a number of people, exactly how many it is not "stated, were killed.
Strict _martial law was at once enforced and the Nanking censorship} was successful in preventing the from coming to Shanghai until they found'it.convenient to make]
public, Growing Indignation in Shanghai At a largely attended meeting at the Chinese General Chamber of! the Central Special Committee, which should be denounced and which (it was alleged) was responsible for the shooting incident in [Nanking on November 22; 2 That a. special committee be [appointed to investigate the incident; 3." That the Nationalist Govern-
[ment be urged to punish those responsible for the incident; 4. That financial assistance be offered by different tions to the victims of the outrage-and their' families; and, 3 '5. That the members of the Cen-! tral Executive: Committee: and the Supeivisory Committee: who pave not arrived in Shanghai be urged to come immediately,
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