CHINESE RISING
NIPPED IN BUD.
United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) HONG KONG, December 12
Smart police work in the heart of Hong Kong Chinese quarters effectively stopped a Red rising. Following an order of a Chinese detective, the police discovered a plot for a Red rising start, ing in a Chinese hotel. Unknown to tbe Reds, the waiters were suddenly chnn'gifor detectives, whilst in the .streets mingled with the crowds were a hundred detectives disguised as beggars, hawkers etc.
The police had information that the signal for the rising was to be a bomb hurled from the roof of an hotel. Immediately the bomb was thrown, the disguised detectives drew concealed weapons and a hundred uniformed officers appeared and formed a cordon, arresting 20 dangerous armed agitators who were completely surprised. Not a shot was fired.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 5
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143CHINESE RISING Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 5
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