the rain yesterday morning a pis ärid shemibers of the San Marco lags body of Shatighai Municipal
öt Italian marines paraded in the Jessfield area, where a crime "wave" has desn experienced in the last few weeks, culminating in a shooting affray oh Wednesday morning which cost the lives of two men and & five others to be injured.
t. R. W. Yorke, Assistant Comihissigner ahd Divisional Officer of "B" Division, headed the squads of police, most_of whom wore steel waistedats, Supt J. F. Lovell commanded the personnel of the Reserve Unit which participated, while Chief Insp. O. B. Perkins led the men from Bubbling Well Station. The large red vans of the Reserve Unit added to the impressiveness of the scene.
The Italian marines, led by their officers, walked through the streets in steel helmets and other fighting equipment.
The demonstration centred about Brenan Piece, in the vicinity of the place where on Wednesday morning a "Ta Tao" detective official and another Chinese were shot dead and five other Chinese were wounded.
One of the latter remains in a serious condition in hospital.
Crime in the district is ascribed mainly to the open gambling conducted in almost every alleyway in "Ta Tao" territory.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.