The Archive · 1934

Anniversary of Seizure of Gunboat

The nineteenth anniversary of the seizure by Kuomintang members of the gunboat Chaowu here in" an uprising against Yuan Shih-kal was commemorated at a meeting held in the Shanghai District Kuomintang offices. off Route Ghisi, tas Wednes* ay morning. Mr. Tung Ying-pel, 0 member of the executive committee jof the local Party, presided and the meeting was attended by more than 100 representatives of the various Public bodies. Gen. Yang Hu, Com: mander of the Peace Preservation Corps, who was the hero of. the uprising, was prevented from attend: ing. He prepared a speech, which was read at the meeting by Mr. Tung, recalling in detail the seizure. and also the recapture of the boat by Yuan Shih-kai agents.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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