The Archive · 1937

Procession Formed

After the demonstration the crowd formed a procession and moved westwards in Nanking Road and into Bubbling Well Road and past the Race Course. Nearly thirty Johnson hire-cars, filled with demon-strafers and decorated with flags and written slogans, were in the line. Police and members of the Russian Regiment, S.V.C., brought up the rear, while a Chinese film camera-man recorded the proceedings from a car. There were no clashes between the crowd and the authorities. Some eighty demon-strafers found their way into the Central district by Nanking Road, and then dispersed.

Printed sheets commemorating the event were distributed to the crowd at the corner of Nanking Road and Chekiang Road. Besides expressing lively patriotic sentiments, they contained cartoons showing wounded Chinese soldiers and Chinese civilians helping the fighting forces with their labour and "comforts." One of the sketches showed a rickshaw puller refusing money, from a wounded soldier riding in his vehicle.

Patriotic posters were put on n: any private cars during the demonstratiorf, regardless of the ownership of the cars.

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

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