The Archive · 1939

Mob Raid Twenty Shops Dee. 16

More than twenty riots outside rice shops in the western—district Shanghai, including the "badlands," caused the arrest yesterday of about one hundred Chinese by officers. of red in the incidents, most hrough attempting to. storm the crowds toward the stores of grain. which were being freely Tooted by the mobs, These seven were afterwards removed by 'Municipal Ambulances, "but it is believed that the total' of injured was very. much greater, those receiving only minor huns preferring {o find their own way home without calling attention to themselves, Quantities of rice varying between Tew piculs to 2 hundred piculs were stolen from the shops attacked,

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