CELEBRATION IN SHANGHAI

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9

CELEBRATION IN SHANGHAI

REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY STRICT PRECAUTIONS TAKEN CRIME WAVE AT ITS HEIGHT By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. United Service. Shanghai, Oct. 9. Strict precautions have been enforced within the foreign concessions owing to to-morrow’s celebrations of the anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution in 1911. The British troops are confined to barracks and the police street patrols have been doubled, with orders speedily to arrest anti-foreign agitators. The whole of Shanghai, within and without the concessions, blazes with the red of hundreds of thousands of Nationalist flags displayed. An elaborate programme has been planned by the Chinese populace, which is expected to be given free play to air its feelings by the native authorities in order to emphasise the success of the Nationalist movement. The authorities in the foreign concessions are perturbed in view of another crime wave which is at its height now. Shanghai is the largest city in China and the sixth in the world, according to a census which has been completed by the Bureau for Public Safety. Thia shows that Shanghai has a total population of 2,726,946, of which 47,768 are foreigners. The population of the international settlement is 827,000 Chinese and 28,900 foreigners. In the French concession there are 348,076 Chinese and 10,377 foreigners. The remaining population resides in territory controlled by the Chinese and includes 9383 foreigners, principally Russians and Japanese.