The Settlement, peaceful as usual, the students, with the permission of the military, took themselves to the public recreation grounds near St. Catherine's Bridge and in a demo stration organized by the General Union of Labour, Commerce and Education, between 20 and 30 thousand Chinese went through the ordinary Chinese commemorative procedure—bows, periods of silence. shouts, music, ete. The Fengtien soldiers, especially detailed to keep order, the Chinese police and the Nantao Volunteer Corps maintained eigners, including members of the hated foreign press, passed in and about the crowds in perfect safety, though they were assailed with flu: ent Chinese curses.
The ground, filled with representatives of 150 or more organizations, was elaborately decorated with hundreds of scrolls which eulogized the so-called martyrs. Coolics distri" uted 13 different kinds of handi decrying trade snd intercourse wi the British and Japanese.
The chairman of the Fokien Road Street Union, who has played a prominent part in the agitation, pre. sided, declaring that they had come to commemorate the victime who had suffered "tisis outrage on account of the weskne: s of the Chinese nation." The chainman of the Wholesale Rice Deaters* Association, led the attendants to the deceaseds' photographs. Several eulogies were read, then more bows, then silence for five minutes (2). then more speeches. At 3.15 p.m. after the mob had shouted three times "Long live the National Movement," and "The Victims of May 30 will Live For Ever," the meting dispersed. Probably half their number came into the Settlement or passed through to Chapel in a peaceable manner.
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