Apparently emboldened by thais comeade's success in evading punishment by reason of the Proional Court muddle as to who shall hear their ease, a score or more of alleged students repeated the performance on September 2 by. assembling on September 9 on Nanking Road in the vicinity of Chekiang Road and staged" an impromptu meeting for the purpose acquainting passers-by with the tenets of Bolshevis A feature of the meeting as on the week before was the distribution gratis of coloured pamphlets, book-Tots and cartoons, bearing the usual diatribes against the "un: equal" treaties, the hatred of foreigners also considerable opposition was voiced Kuomintang and its inability exclude foreigners from the Settlement promptly.
Thirteen, including three women, of the alleged—part taken into custody by the Police.
Before they could be subdued it necessary to call out all the available police at the Louza Station together with the riat squad from Garden Road. On arrival they were met with a volley of stones and general debris that for a moment made the situation appear more serious than it eventually proved to be.
In the melee several trams suffered broken windows and a few onlookers attracted by the disordse stained contusions which they wisely kent to themselves.
Principal among the stone throwers were certain' women who were arrested, Certain of those apprehended by the police are alleged to have suid in reply to orders to move on that they were within their rights and as proof of this reminded tha police that their comrades of the demonstration of September 2 were sojourning at the Provisional Court and have a very good chance tried within fourteen days, quoting the protest of the Senior Consul's deputy, Mr. Stevens, made to Judge Chou on Sept.
And as a fitting climax it is said thit at Louza Station after tha fracas, several of the more oat: spoken blithely announced that the following Sunday will seo a similar performance on one of the thoroughfares and the outcome aa in the previous case will be foe the police to worry about, not the rioters, Many of those arrested on Sept. 9 appeared to be of a better station in life than the nondescript Aggreation of peddlers, beggar, fand unemployed that were arrest fon Sept. 2 and it Is thought th believing in the inability of th Settlement judicial authorities Adequately to punish them for the disturbance, the veal leaders of the movement are beginning to appear in person to direct proceedings.
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