'They then started Aring into the air with their pistols, At the same time policemen ame rushing' out of the police-station half-dressed and with Fifles in their hands and started tung, these over our heads. (It has been fung blank rounds. firing ball cartridge. Anvbody who has heard it knows the difference in sound between blank and, live am~ munition. In any ease, I myself picked upon the spot Immediately afterwards a rifle and a. pistol empty teartridge ease, and they were certain-ball'and not blank.)
It was the strangest scene imaginable. "The students had fled in disorder to the square in front of the Fankow station, but rapidly formed Into line again. Outside the pollceslatlon stood _aroune of foralaers and Chinese who had been caught in the melee. Around us milled th armed police, shouting and brandish-
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