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When the rumor went about that patrol wagons were on the way, many in the crowd dispersed, but a considerable number remained out of curiosity. With the Square still filled with students, the four patrol wagons, loaded with 40 policemen, arrived, charged through the crowds, and drew up at the subway station. No one was injured though several people narrowly escaped being run down by the police cars...
...patrol wagons were soon filled as the police got the situation well in hand. Scattered melees between officers and small bodies of students continued, but after the police had here once again been victorious, the "action" turned into a man hunt, with the police seizing all those present in the Square...
...Fuller '26, one of those arrested, was injured after being placed in the patrol wagon. Fuller had an unlighted pipe in his mouth. He was ordered to remove the pipe, but before he could comply, he was hit across the face with a night stick. The blow broke his glasses, fractured his nose, and inflicted a gash that required three stitches on his cheek...
After seven years of wrangling over the Yangtze Patrol, Washington has made a contract in Shanghai for six modern gunboats to replace the old and feeble units now in use. The first is to be ready in March, the others to follow a month apart. The Elcano will soon be released from duty as a floating fortification at Ichang and scrapped...
After the Elcano, the two gunboats U. S. S. Monocacy and U. S. S. Palos which form the Upper Yangtze Patrol, will be released. These are coal and wood burners of the vintage of approximately 1910, and are so old that they navigate the rapids above Ichang with the greatest difficulty and danger...