The Archive · 1928

March Through Settlement

Another "insult sovereignty" hus been laid at the door of the Shanghai Municipal Council, according to reports in the Chinese press, where the story is printed of how Municipal Police prevented a number of armed students, styling themselves the Shanghai Students Army, from marching through the International Settlement. The students were disarmed and submitted meekly.

The Shanghai Students Army is under the control of the Students Union and the Military Training Committee, which bodies have sert protest' to the Mi Foreign Affairs, requesting his intervention, The Chinese Rate~ payers Association has also been applied to for assistance in wipe off this alleged slur on the natio prestige, gurate a general campaign against the mills concerned. On Monday a meeting of workers from 12 mills was held when the project. was broached and officials chosen to carry

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