FIRING EXCHANGES.
SEVERAL "'CASUALTIES
[ ' (Received 2.35 p.m.) ; PEKIN, June 23. This afWrnpOn •thousaiss : of students, workmen, citizens soldiers paraded along ..the Bund 'in,.' Canto* ' an.d,: around the Shameen. When oppOsite the Victoria Hotel in the' British concession firing began. • Th 6 English and French marines replied witfc macliine-giin's: The . firing lasted for 20 minutes, the ■ Chinese soldiers firing from the West Bund. A French merchant, M. Pasquier, "was kilted. The Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Arthur Edwards, one British marine and two civilians wero Opinion js unanimous that the first 'wounded. ' shots came, from the Chinese.—Renter,
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Northern Advocate, 24 June 1925, Page 5
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