Church and of the Yangtse Hotel were smashed, two foreign police officers, a Chinese constable and eleven Chinese were injured, and ten arrests were made as a result of rioting in the Vu Ye-ching and Nan-King Roads area on May 12.
The trouble began about 9.20 o'clock, with the firing, of _the Royal Salute of 21 guns onthe Race *t Course. A huge mob gathered at the corner of Chekiang and Nanking Roads, and showed signs of unrest, Their numbers soon grew to dangerous Proportions, whereupon the police Here, a vacant plot of ground provided ammunition for the mob, fand stones began to fly in the direction of the police. Matters became serious, but worse was follow. A lone Chinese woman, seared, ran into the premises of the Moore Memorial Church, which Immediately closed its doors. Stones were therefore thrown at the church, with the result that all the windows on the Hankow Road side were smashed, and several advertisement hoardings and sttest corner signs were damaged, The Reserve Unit lorries, which had turned out at 930 o'clock to deal with the first disturbance and had continued to cruise in the vicinity, arrived on the scene, snd prevented the trouble from assuming any more serious aspects, Prior to this, the police in Lloyd Rood had also'had their hands full, dealing with another crowd which had stoned.them when the _pollee Interfered with rowdy elements and attempted to keep the mob in order Nothing of a cerions nature occurred, The Maryland Cabaret in Vu Ya-ching Rosd was also the scene of another sporadic outbreak when crowds denied entrance by the management stoned the place; very Uttle damage, however, was done as the police were quickly on the scene to {ake marlers in hand, 'A Russian woman at the corner of Nanking and' Kweichow Roads had her bag snatched by someone in: the crowd, and the man got away safely; she lost $20. Complaints were also ecelved from various foreigners of
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