Fifteen persons, including on? girl, were avresied by the police yesterday for causing disturbances the Settlement in connection with the recent Communist outbreaks Korea and India, Those arrested were all Chinese and their defence tothe police was that they were staging "'sympathetic outbreaks"
ith the communists in Korea and India, In no case was any damage done. The demonstrations were mostly verbal and those arrested wore seized by the police for shout commonist slogans and dis tributing communist handbills con-ming the usually fiery manifestoes. These called for the overthrow of the Nationalist government, tha acceptance of communist doctrines by the Settlement officials and the reduction of working hours wit of pay for the workers.
tors were pro-Korean, nese, anti-Nationalist and one police official expressed it, nti-everything that stood for lay and order."
There wore two features to the One the defence of the Chapoo Road bridge by a lone Sikh policeman who repulsed some 200 of the Communists end turned them pele-mele in utter confusion back toward the Post Office. The othe was their stoning, with one stone, of a tram car in front of the General Hospital, which gave them vigour for their exploits that were to come but which quickly melted a hundred yards farther on when they met the determined Sikh. their expulsion by all "right think-1g people."
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