CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 265

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concerned. A demonstration was held by Chinese students

in the busiest streets of the International Settlement in

defiance of by-laws designed to secure the preservation

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of order and the free circulation of traffic for residents

of all nationalities. The Settlement Police, who are employees of the International Council, endeavoured to do their duty and maintain respect for the law by arresting the ringleaders. This in turn, led to an attack on a police station by a mob of between two and three thousand people,

of whom a few of the leaders were students, but many were

loafers and bad characters from the less reputable quarters

of Shanghai. The handful of police on duty tried for some time to disperse the crowd by persuasion and then by baton charges, but they were driven back by increasing numbers, and finally when the inflamed mob was within six feet of the station gates, and Inspector Everson, the officer in charge, feared that his man would be overwhelmed and the station and its armoury captured, as had occurred once before, he ordered a volley to be fired.

but The resulting casualties must be deplored by all, unless Inspector Everson was to abdicate his functions as a police officer and make a criminal surrender to the mob of the interests in his charge, which, be it remembered were mainly Chinese, it is difficult to see what else he could have done in the circumstances, and his personal conduct in the matter was vindicated in the fullest manner by all three judges in the international judicial enquiry which was held subsequently. It merely clouds the issue to compare this affair with what occurred on its anniversary in 1926, when disturbances were definitely expected, and a large show of force was prepared as a result of previous experience, to deal with any trouble which might arise.

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