THAT was ostensibly to have been a meeting to honour th memory of those who died in the May 30 incident eleven years ago, developed to a violent anti-Japanese demonstration turday with a parade of some 3,000 Eh se through North Road and the distribution handbills, of thor nds of inflammatory Roughly half of the crowd, which consisted mainly of students, visited the tomb of the May'30 dead, off Paoshing Road, after the procession and placed wreat lis there. They finally returned to the Settlement and dispersed without police persuasion having! been brought into play.
Nevertheless a tense situation existed that night and station forces and reserves were standing by. Anti Japanese handbills also were distributed in Avenue Edward VII, but there as no large, demonstration there.
The disturbance began at a mass meeting of tional salva. tion" groups at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, North Soochow Road at North Honan Road, in the course of which speakers assailed Japanese activities in North China, and the recent wholesale smuggling of goods into that areca.
A Chinese found distributing pamphlets denouncing certain members of the presidium was attacked and so seriously injured that he had to be removed from the auditorium {o hospital.
Atler the meeting, at 380 p.m, the crowd attempted to start a parade up North Honan Road into" Chapel, with hundreds of colour-banners and. flags and thousands of handbitis, but they were tempora arily halted by some 200 police, com posed of detachments from the Hong-Kew and West Honpkew Stations and the Reserve Unit, with Capt.
Kennedy and Mr, W. E, Fairbairn, Asaistant Commissioners, in charge, Cordons of men with drawn batons wore thrown across the Honan Road Bridge and North Soochow Road, and the crowd paused to deliberate with the police 'oMicials, The leaders the 3000 men, women and children Agreed {0 fold up all banners and march out of the Seitlenent "In orderly fashion, refraining from dis-'Aributing handbills, They: were given permission to
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