SHANGHAI INCIDENT
BITTER CAFE BRAWL AMERICANS AND ITALIANS LONDON, Dec. 26. Renter's Shanghai correspondent says nine Ahierican marines and three sailors are reported to have been sent to hospital after one of the bitterest cafe brawls in many months between the defence forces of the International Settlement in which 100 Arnerican and Italian marines participated, early on Christmas morning. The Italian casualties are unknown, but it is reported that several were seriously injured. Sikhs of the -Settlement Police intervened on the side of the Americans. The brawl,' which arose over the use of a table, raged until the arrival of the military police. It is believed that the clash was settled amicably.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24492, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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