Man Chased by Crowd After Making Remark Chesed by a soccer crowd of 159 people. a Russian on Sunday was saved from trouble on the Race Course by the intervention of members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, off duty and in plain clothes, while three others also received protection.
This affair occurred some mi-Jmutes tier the first division league match between the Jewish Recreation Club'and the Royal inniskilling Fesillers had concluded.
Two separate incidents were settled by the peace-makers within 9 fow minutes, the crowd being in an excitable mood following the socre= match in which a Jewish player had been sent off the field. The game had ended in a draw.
There had been some instances of vigorous tactics by one or two individual players in the match, but nothing particularly serious occurred fond the maioli ended comparatively peacefully. After it had ended supporters, it ts said, of the Jewish sid> orgued' with a player. "The: argue ment grew @ little warm and some blows were streek by partisans of both sides. Members of the SAP. present in plain clothes and in the sole capacity of spectators, assisted civilians and soldiers to smooth ma: ters over, and everything calmed
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