Two Injured When Over 30,000
Fight for Charity 'The crossing of Lloyd and 'Thibet Roads, a few steps from—Nanking Road,' one of the busiest streets in Shanghai, was packed to overflowing, at dawn on July 7, when over 30,000 beggars fought their way to the Ningpo_ Residents Association Thibet Road, in the hope of receiving twenty cents each from Mr, Vu Ya-ching, on the occasion of his sevenileth birthday anniversary. Although there was no {raffle to speak of at this hour, sach huge crowds thronged the streets that contingents: of police had to be called out to disperse them, for fear of an untoward happening. " As a result of a general ight which started on the arrival of the uniformed men, an aged man and Woman were knocked down and had to be conveyed to hospital in an ambulance, It was reported that hundreds of beggars received twenty cents each on July 6 and this led to the belief that the distribution would be continued on July 7,
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