Displaying grim determination and perfect composure, members of the Russian Regiment, guarding the interned soldiers of the "Doomed Battalion," averted an ugly incident shortly before 10 am. yesterday when a near-riot was staged by the internees at the camp in Singapore Road.
The trouble started at about 9 a.m. yesterday when General Hsieh objected to having the football feid gate repaired. P.W.D. coolies, arriving to do the job, were practically forced to abandon it when more than a hundred soldiers marched to the gate and stood th The situation immediately reported to Major (C. H. Mann, coi mandant of the camp, and he arrived there a few minutes later and asked General Hsieh to see him and explain the reason for his objections. The Chinese general, commander of the battalion which almost three years ago won the admiration of the city for his resistance against the Japanese, refused to see Major Mann.
Seeing that his persuasions brought no results, Major Mann ordered the guard commander to allow no one in or out of the camp, unless General Hsieh changed his mind and explained his attitude.
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