RIOTING IN SHANGHAI
NANKING PEACE ORDERS DEFIED A ROWDY CELEBRATION (United Service) Reed. 9.30 p.m. SHANGHAI. Thursday. In spite of a mandate from Nanking ordering a peaceful celebration today of the anniversary of the shooting in 1925, Chinese agitators have been inflaming the masses for weeks past. Special police defe J:e forces and volunteers were standing by, but certain sections of the Chinese got out of hand today and stoned tramcars and foreigners in motor-cars. Sporadic rioting is continuing and lias been proved to be due wholly to the machination of the Communists. The office of the Chinese Republican “Daily News” was stormed, the editor’s car was wrecked, and the interior partitions destroyed. The facade of the office of “Hsin Shun Pao,” the largest Chinese journal, v T as completely wrecked. The police made 100 arrests. The city is flooded with anti-foreign pamphlet io
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 677, 31 May 1929, Page 9
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144RIOTING IN SHANGHAI Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 677, 31 May 1929, Page 9
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