HM. Gunboats for Hankow; Fore eigners Warned to Keep Inside Hankow, Jan. 4.
A big mass meeting was held thi morning on ths Huichang Maloo, attended by representatives of the Government departments and of all the unions.
Government speakers and agita:
made speeches on yesterday's lent, stating that several Chi had been killed and wounded fey the marine The object of the meeting was to form a "Society to Disarm the British Fores and Take Back the Resolutions were also passed to telegraph to all parts of the world Jemphasizing "the cruelty of the British in wounding innocent per-
A further meeting of executives is being held at the New World at seven o'clock this evening.
At 8.15, crowds were gathering on the Bund and the British police station, Trouble is expected and the volunteers have been ordered to stand by.
Chinese Protection After the crowds Jand outside the police-station had been driven back the Chinese aus thorities promised to send troops. (Ax the result of an agreement between the Chinese and British authorities this morning to leave the [Chinese to maintain order, marines were not landed and consequently the barricades were zat guarded.)
By 3.90 all the sandbag barricades {in roads leading to the Concession were removed by sections of the crowds, apparently acting pre-arranged plan.
The volunteers have been called, out,
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