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10,000 March On British Consulate
Shanghai, Saturday.
HILE Shameen Island,
W Canton, was still under
martial law following yesterday's anti-British riots, 10,000 students marched on the British consulate here this afternoon.
The general impression was that anything might have hap- pened but for the presence of 500 police, armed with, tommy- guns and rifles and supported by three armoured cars.
Like the Shameen disturbances, the demonstration was a protest against the British eviction of Chinese residents from slum quarters of Kowloon, opposite. Hongkong, for sanitary reasons.
For three hours the students sang patriotic songs and shouted anti-British and anti-American slogans.
They dispersed after a small deputation had been permitted to present a petition to the British Consul-General.
The walls of the consulate were covered with slogans denouncing Britain and the United States.
All British women and children evacuated from Shameen Island arrived at Hongkong to-day after a 90-mile flight.-Reuter, B.U.P. A.P.
18 JAN 1019
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