SHANGHAI AGITATION
ANOTHER FLARE-UP
STRIKERS' DEMONSTRATIONS,
(Received 19th June, 11 a.m.)
PEKIN-, 18th. June.
A wireless message from Shanghai says that the agitation has again flared up, and the situation is critical. The British Consul was forced to leave the Consulate and has taken up his residence in the Lungmen Temple. British residents were stoned and assaulted in the streets. The warship Teal is protecting the Asiatic Petroleum Company's installation.. There is no news from Arnoy and Foochow. The position at Kiukiarig is improving, and Hankow is quiet." Other reports from Shanghai state that the shipping strike is becoming worse., The Pootung ' Wharf coolies struck, and 90 per cent, of the Shanghai lug and Lighter "Company's'lightermen are out. Ninety ex-members of the municipal police led a huge procession which smashed the windows of shops containing British and Japanese goods, until Chang Such-iiang's troops interfered and subdued the crowd. Subsequently the rioters sent a delegation to ask Chan" Such-Hang to throw in his lot with the strikers. Chang counselled prudence and patience.
Late last night the strikers set fire to the Japanese cotton mill at Kungdah but the police extinguished it, and little damage was done. . .'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 142, 19 June 1925, Page 5
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