By this time, there was a crowd of nearly 300 persons, who looked like Chinese and Korean students. Another paper cracker was fired off, and those present began to shout anti-imperialistic and anti-Kuomintang slogans and to throw pamphlets of a similar character about.
One of these showed that they were issued by the executive committee of the longss Communist Party, which is a branch of the Chinese Communist Party and the Youths? Anti-Imperialistic League. They purported to protest against the arrest of a number of Chinese students in Japan by "the authorities of that country.
Police by this time had rushed to the scene in the Hongkew Station van, under Inspr. Clissold and Sub-Inspr, Focken, and they found the stowd which had reached a state] nearing fury. joon as they saw the police coming, the demonstrate 3 dispersed into the side alley-Accordingly, the police experienced no trouble, However, six persons of the student type were rested and a large amount of, saunter-revolutionary and other inflammatory literature was seized.
'A Chinese was ar ted on Taka Road for having his possession a large quantity of handbills purporting to emanate from the Youths' Anti-Lmperialistie League, an organization with Comnuunistic affiliations, From the contents it was learned that demonstra. tion was to take place in front of] I the Japanese Consulate,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.