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May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.

Historical image related to May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers. from May 30, 1925

May Thirtieth Movement

1925 anti-imperialist labor movement in Republic-era China

The May Thirtieth Movement was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era. It began when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Settlement on 30 May 1925. The shootings…
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Shanghai Municipal Police

Police force of the Shanghai International Settlement (1854–1943)

The Shanghai Municipal Police was the police force of the Shanghai Municipal Council which governed the Shanghai International Settlement between 1854 and 1943, when the settlement was retroceded to Chinese control.
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