The oMieials and councillors. subsequently left the platform in an Mr, ¥, Hayashi orderly manner amid the shouts of many Japanese ratepayers, "Tt Is be~ Veved that Mr, Hayashi left the platform escorted by several members of the Japanese consular police and.
believed to have been taken to the Japanese Consulate-General.
Sometime later, before all the eouncillors had left the platform, the chairman of the meeting briefly an~ ounced that the proceedings had been adjourned. A quarter of an our later Mr, Carney, the. American councillor, who was the seconder of the Counci's proposals for increased tuxatlon proposed by Mr, Keswick, also announced over the microphone that the meeting was adjourned.
Almost immediately after the first signs of trouble became evident the police to a man, drew their guns in Feadiness for any untoward incident and aggravation of the situation. The Reserve Unit and Riot Squad were in After most of the foreign ratepayers present had left the. immediate Vicinity of the platform, feelings con tinued' to run high among many the Japanese present, several of whom invaded the platform and addressed the Japanese ratepayers in their The Shanghai Municipal Couneit list night had no offeial statement to make regarding the events which Erought to a close, half-way during the proceedings, the most eventful meeting of ratepayers of the Inter~ Rational Settlement.—Newspaper: cetices were besieged by numerous telephone calls from anxious enquiry rs, who were gratified to hear that Mr. Keswick was not seriously hurt, The number of voters assembled to-telled 2084 and both sides of the Public stand facing the platform were fied to capacity,
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