Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging from a conference with Secretary Stimson, Admiral Pratt ordered the entire Asiatic fleet to prepare for China service. "Our fleet will be ready to evacuate our nationals or to protect them if a crisis arises where mob rule prevails." said he. A correspondent asked him what would happen if Japan did not favor the move. "That," said Admiral Pratt, "would be just...
...Bombay a mob set fire to the police .station, put out the city lights, built huge bonfires of British cloth. Police fired into the crowd, charged with flailing lathis (sticks). Many heads were cracked, hundreds of rioters arrested. The Bombay-Benares express was derailed. Hundreds were arrested in Calcutta and New Delhi for reciting the declaration of independence in public and singing patriotic songs. At the end of three days eight persons had been killed, 1,000 jailed, many sentenced to three years' hard labor...
...Tradicionalista Club, Basque royalist society, attempted to hold a meeting last week in Bilbao. Socialists, Communists, Republicans attempted to break down the doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms...
...roofed Tsingtao, chief port of famed Shantung Province, China, the biggest newspaper came out one day last week describing the attempt to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan as "an unfortunate failure." A mob swept out of the Japanese quarter of the city and methodically kicked the offices of the Min Kuo Daily News apart. Then they burned the local headquarters of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party. Thousands of Chinese gathered up their belongings and fled to the back country...
...arrest, submitted quietly, smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called out. At Karachi police charged a crowd after a public meeting, injured 28. At Allahabad the subpostmaster and two others were killed in a riot. At Srinagar a mob of 12,-coo stormed a police station, freed three prisoners. At Bombay U. S. tourists were frightened away from British shops by saffron-robed women pickets. One tourist persisted in buying a hat, had it snatched from her head. Police found five live .bombs in a first-class compartment...