Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evacuated by the British (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) in the face of threats by a Chinese mob...
...relations with the foreign powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government felt it necessary to despatch to the Far East a sufficient force to protect the lives of my British and Indian subjects against mob violence and armed attacks. . . . But . . . my Government has caused proposals to be made to the Chinese authorities which should convince public opinion in China and throughout the world that it is the desire of the British people to remove all real grievances, to renew pur treaties on an equitable basis and to place our future relations with the Chinese people on a footing of friendship...
...verge of starvation, makes it possible for employers to exploit them. They are herded into the cities and paid harely enough to live on. As a result China furnishes the most fertile soil for any sort of propaganda. Here one finds the most promising source of mob violence...
...Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them up. At last policemen charged the women, dragged them to a safe...
...riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it. In the second place, even had there been a riot the choice of methods made by the police was bad. There is a quite obvious distinction between a few hundred students and a howling mob bent on destruction. The police used methods applicable to the latter...