SHANGHAI CONSULATE MOBBED BY 10,000
SHANGHAI, Saturday.
For three hours today 10,000 Chinese students demonstrated outside the British Consulate in Shanghai, shouting anti- British and anti-American slogans, and singing patriotic songs. Order was main- tained by 500 police, supported by armoured cars, who guarded the Consulate entrances.
were protesting The demonstrators against the recent British evictions of Chinese living in condemned huts in Kowloon Crown territory opposite Hong Kong the issue which caused the anti- British riots in Canton less than 24 hours before.
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The crowd dispersed after a deputation had been allowed to enter the Consulate grounds and hand a petition- believed to be in the form of an ultimatum -to the Consul-General.
Weary and shaken, all the British women and children evacuated from Shameen Island, Canton-still under martial law after yesterday's riots-arrived in Hong Kong by air today. They said that demon- strators, running wild, had reduced parts of Shameen to a shambles.”—Reuter.
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Sunday Times
18 JAN 1948
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