Twenty Truckloads of People Refused Entry to Settlement After Kiangwan Celebration Shanghai, Oct, 17. majority of twenty truckloads of Chinese, bound for the Western district from north of the Soochow Creek yesterday afternoon to attend a meeting celebrating the first anniversary of the "Shanghai Special Municipality," was held up by the Seltlement Police at the Szechuen Road Bridg and finally turned back: after lengthy negotiations between officials of the S.M.P. and Japanese officers.
The reason for the refusal to let the trucks pass was the fact that the [Chinese in the vehicles were display ing a large number of flags and banners with political inscriptions. This display was made despite written undertaking which had previously been given by the Kiangwan administration to the effect that the assing of the 300 or so Kiangwan sympathizers through the Settlement the central and Bubbling Well areas was fo be made merely for the sake Jor convenience, the roads in Chapei Which the line of lorries could have followed being in a slate of disrepair.
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As it was, the train of cars, bristle ing with politfeal banners, appeared Jat the north end of the' Szechuen Road Bridge at about 240 pin. The regular squad of Settlement police Jmen on the span started to question the leaders of the procession. "At 3.15 elnforcements of foreign and Indian policemen were rushed to the bridge, Jand half an hour later the red vans Jot the Reserve Unit went to the scene, thus adding considerably to the already large force of S.M-P. men on the spot. "Mr. H. D. M. Robertson, Divisional Omer, and other high police officials attended the scene per-
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