TROUBLE IN SHANGHAI

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 November 1927, Page 10

TROUBLE IN SHANGHAI

ANTI-SOVIET RIOTING CHINESE WOMEN'S RAGE SHANGHAI, 7i.li Nov. The, old White and (ho new Red Russians clashed fiercely here (anight- The Louth anniversary of (ho Soviet Revolution and the preparations for its eelebraiions at, the Bolshevik Consulate proved to bo too much Tor (he roniuants of the •..M regime. Cabaret, girls, prosperous business women, »dub men and professional ?oldiers; former peasants and aristocrats; u'oujik and ex-countess-raU wore ropresonlod in a fierce attack by men and women on (ho Consulate The Bolshevik celebrations were at*first merely accompanied by local religious mourning. The quaint 'Russian Church in the French concession echoed mournful ditties. Black-bearded, long-robed priests went among the mixed little flock of outcasts—the pariah band that lias wandered further eastward until tP.-day Shanghai, from the costumiers in Nanking road to the cabarets, is almost as much Russian as Western European. The "mourning for lost parents, brothers, sisters,'a, lost country, proceeded nuietlv, until finally the pent-up feelings of teii years burst "forth as the brilliant lights blazed across from where the Soviet Consulate rears up opposite the Astor House Hotel. ' "While Russia" decided to put out the illuminations. A crowd swarmed to the Consulate. One section of it put out the lights, another tore down the bunting and flags. More "Whites" gathered and the crowd proceeded to storm the building. They' smashed in the doors and windows and forced an entrance. As the crowd, led by a. wild-eyed, dark-haired dancer, burst in one door a fusilade of- revolver shots broke out. The battle raged for some minutes until the municipal police restored order. As far as ifc is known at present one White Russian has been killed and five are wounded, while one of the Red guards in the Consulate is wounded. But the Whites are jubilant, for to-night the Consulate is merely a dark shadow in. front of the gay lights of the Astor House. The illuminations were .so effectively put out that they cannot function any more.