The strike of the wheelbarrow coolies against the increase of the license fees took vel ious turn on Monday morning, when a mob of between seven or eight hundred men, armed for the most part with bamboos, and attended by a very large crowd of more or less active sympathisers, marched from the French Concession into the Anglo-American Settlement, by way of the Bund bridge over the Yang-king-pang, and commenced a riot which it was at first believed had resulted in the death of two natives, although no direct evidence vras available on that point. The policeman duty near the Bridge had his attention drawn to the advancing crowd, and after the skirmish on the same spot last week he naturally apprehended mischief. For some inexplicable reason the French police seemed to do. nothing to hinder the rioters, who, as soon as they crossed the bridge attacked a coolie-cart carrying slaughter-house offal and then "went for® the policeman. This was at about eleven o'clock and some gentlemen who happened to be in the Club rushed out to the assistance of the policeman, who was also reinforced by some others, including Inspector Matheson, and two Sikh troopers, it was then apparent that the mob was in a very nasty temper, and after Inspector Matheson had been seriously hurt about the legs, telephone messages were des-itched for assistance. The ponies the to face the yelling crowd, brandis! sikhs were riding could not be ts
bamboos, but Mr. Tulloch held the arum: whilst the troopers charged the rioters in the pluckiest manner with their swords. One of the men, however, was overwhelmed and "his sword taken away from him, but regaining his feet he got hold of a bamboo jand began to lay about in deadly fashion,
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