CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927 — Page 126

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cession who had joined the Labour Union, hud put on plain clothes to join the procession; but as they came out of the Police Station, they happened to get intu & aispute with some wharf nu ricksh. coolice through misunderstanding,

and fighting resulted between them. The const: bloc voru

Armed with truncheons, but they only m.d bevernl tune of

while the coolics numbered several hundrede.

the fight bugun, the pick to reached the spot first, but could not pacify the combatants. Neither could the small

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number of soldiers na policemen there ao nything. There

for Chan Kwan (

), the Kuomintang Representative

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sent 2 companies of solalors into the centre of the moo

thus separating the combatanti. The result was that eight

of the populace and two Chinese const:.ules were hurt. While

this light was going on the atmosphere WD Vry tense, the

more bo us the procession was in progress.

Therefore the

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Kuomintang Representativ issued urgent order, directing the soldiers to take precautions in Yi To Struct({ in the British Concession, stop all trafic, and low no

man to pass unless he could produce a certificate from the

Foreign Ministry or the Kuomintang Representative.

was gradually restored between 2 p.m. and 8

conditions were restored by 12 p...

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