CLASH IN SHANGHAI
BRITISH & ITALIANS
TROOPS AND SAILORS
(Received February 24, 0.30 a.m.)1 SHANGHAI, February 23.
Four rankers of the North Lane*shire Regiment were injured in a dance hall fight with Italian ratings of the cruiser Lepanto, whose personnel was concerned in the cinema incident on February 20. The combatants used lead piping, weighted clubs, chairs, and bottles. . ■■''..■ Forty men on each side were involved in the dispute. Military'police separated them. , A number of Italians were injured. A Shanghai message on February 20 stated that because of the showing of a Soviet film of the Abyssinian war, ten Italian sailors fired revolvers, raided the projecting- room, smashed the apparatus, and thrashed two Russian operators, who were sent ta hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 11
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119CLASH IN SHANGHAI Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 11
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