EXTREME SPIRITS ROUSED.
POLICE FIRE ON MOB. LONDON. February 23. The gunfire directed at the native city in Shanghai yesterday aroused the more extreme spirits there, and 100 soldiers and agitators made an attack on the Chinese police station. The police fired on the mob, killing several of the demonstrators. The North Cbina correspondent of the ''Daily News" reports that the shells Were fired from gunboats, the crews of which wore trying to escape in order to join the Southerners' gunboats further up the river. hen they were detected they opened fire. One shell passed through a bedroom in the house of a foreign resident over the heads of two sleeping children *ad lodged in the 'wall a foot away from teem.— (Sydney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 9
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