The Archive · 1939

Chinese Demonstrators Turned

Back at Bridge Twenty Truckloads of People Refused Entry to Settlement After Kiangwan Celebration HE majority of twenty truckloads of Chinese, bound for the Western district from north of the Soochow Creek yesterday to attend a meeting celebrating the first anniversary of "Shanghai Special Municipality," was held up by the Settlement Police at the Szechuen Road Bridge, 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 German Forces Moving inese in the vehicles were display-a large number of flags and

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