POLICE CHARGE CROWD.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 5

POLICE CHARGE CROWD.

CROWDS ARE TRUCULENT, Received Mondav 1.32 a.m, SHANGHAI, March 21. • The police were eoxnpelled to make numerous baton charges to clear the streets of truculent crowds. Thc internationxil city and j Frexich authorities liavc erected 1 barbed harriers across the few remaining streets hitherto unhar'oed. Streets bordering the international seitlenrent are strongly guarded by sailors and marines and police volunteers who have now been mobilised and heavily armed with machine guns and tear hombs. The municxpality has declared a state of emergency. Naval parties have landed from all the warships on the river. Thrce Punjabis wheeling a truck just outside the settlement boundary were fired on from an alleyway. All were wounded. One subsequently died. The othex-s are not seriously wounded. The naval parties landed include British, French, Duteh, Spanish, Italian. Axnerlcan and Japanese. The Suffollc regiment has been d'etailed for the defence of the inside settlement.