Quarters Friction between S.V.C. Russian sentries and a Chinese crowd which had gathered outside the gates, developed into a minor encounter at noon yesterday at the Singapore Road camp where. the so-called "Lone Battalion" of former Chinese Government troops is interned.
Some of the Russian soldiers who form the camp guard were putting up barbed wire when trouble arose between them and a crowd of onlookers in the road who threw stones at the S.V.C. men without, however, injuring anyone, Police from the Gordon Road Station and the Reserve Unit also attended. The affray was over inside a few minutes, and order was restored.
The "Lone Battalion, originally 500 strong, achieved world note when the Japanese forces tried to dislodge them from their refuge in the Joint Savings Bank godown, North Soochow Road, on October 21, 1937. Early the next morning the Chinese soldiers were conducted across North Thibet Road and, in police vans and lorries, to the Race Course buildings. They were subsequently placed in the internment camp in Singapore Road where they are still housed.—The attack on the bank godown, in which a large Japanese force employed various artillery over a period of many hours, was a particularly violent one and a number of "over" shells struck buildings downtown, including the "North-China Daily News," or landed in the Whangpoo River in the vicinity of foreign warships.
Since the internment, there has been one serious riot at the camp in Singapore Road. This trouble developed a year after the beginning of hostilities in Shanghai, over the unauthorized hoisting of a large Chinese national flag by the internees.
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