RIOT AT SHANGHAI.
CROWD ATTACK FOOTBALLERS POLICE CLEAR THE GROUND. A. and N.Z. SHANGHAI, Aug. 31. A serious riot occurred at the Far Eastern games meeting when the final of the football championship between China and the Philippines was being played before the largest crowd • that has ever assembled to watch local football. The Chinese heckled the visitors, and tho early stages of the match were marked by several brawls, and finally there was a free fight between all tho players in the centre of the field. The crowd stormed the players and attacked the Filipinos with bottles and knives. Several people were injured and one of the . Filipinos was stabbed and seriously wounded The police finally cleared the ground with their bayonets, and the game ended with the police guarding tho boundaries. China won the match.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 11
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