After' a discussion between. tau] Commistioners the President. sin. noaneed that the Commission had objection to ther statement beitig ite value as evidence be considered when Com:
out itr the Inquiry.
comider, the facts trong Mr.
MoNeill then asked the! stenographer to read our wits Inspector's Tabrom had said is the actions when the charge oom, and then asked wittes if} thie agreed: with wit was in the Sergt. Tabrum replied that the] statement said exactly the same, {tough it was caer to put in words than writing.
Further questions put by Mr, Me: Neill to witness apparently failed to bring to light any material divorgence between what Tabrum said: it the course of his exanthmution: arid what was contained in the written statentent.
Continuing, witness said he wes] put in charge of the firing party, and whilst standing by them son stepped from the crowd and gelled: "Shanghai for the Chittese. Witwress: yushed him backs Ager ier mam tiled: out, and: thie time witness pushed him further into the crowd with a punch to the stoma. Wher the cry "Shatighat' for the Chinese" came' from the individual witrrutes before thie firing broke out, Witness recognized him because He] hat a distorted nose.
Mr. McNeill said that this oolutte his examination, and: suit gested that the Inquiry might a¢- Journ.
"Yes, Mr. McNeill," replied the President, "with your permission we will adjourn." (laughter) were cattled by students who! assembled to take part in the mass: esting. The meeting was to have commenced at 2.30 p.m, A quarter of at hour liter the crowd, which consisted mostly of students, was Gimertet by' the Fengtiet police. By 450 pan. there were no further signs of a demonstration.
'All day on Sunday officials of the SHanghai Students' Union and agitators were busy in attempting intimidate cotton mill and other workers in foreign employ. The workers were told tht the proposed one-day strike Mid received the Blessing of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce enif the Federation of 'Street Usions, but this they refused to believe, save in a few! isolated eases. Nearly all the milly were: Working yesterday with a full comiplenient of operatives. At only Kulf-a-dozen' mills, whose manage-rents had been unable to ascertain from the Chamber that it had not countensmeed the strike and inform the workers accordingly, was there any stoppage.
'As soon' as the: Chamber of Commerce on Sunday learned that representations had been made to the' workers that it had countenanced one-day walkout, the Chamber at once got into touch with th Chinese authorities. It denied that it desired a general stoppage df work, also sending notifications {his effect to the foreign mills. employees: of the Britisti-American 'A.__manifesto calling, upon 'Tobaces Ca., the Strmgttai Dock Engineeringe Ca. (Pootung), and iter? coolies; issued by the "Third Office' of the General Labour: Ussion," over the week-end, stated ly the detestable woerislism" of the' British, Amer-earn, Prenok and Japanese cxpitelists hoped to escape responsibility for their guilt in shooting. dows oar people by holding a re-investig. tion. Ail our countrymen should rive up and oppose the. investiga ation." Decide to call a general strike on that dey (yerterdny)."
All Cltinese employees of foreigners who hat resumed work since May 90° (the mumifesto continued) should absent themselves from Amplifier To Be Installed—work.
Just before the clove of the It is noteworthy that: handbills session the President asked the bouring the above effusion were madience—tHere were about 160 per-ignored by Pootung workers ple present—whettter they could 'A second: appeal to Chinese Hour the proceedings from their hour to cease work: yesterday' was seats. issued by the "Whole Body of!
Tyminediately cries of "No!
Workers of all Cotton Mills in powbte!" arose.
Shanghai."
The President then announced Phere appears te "we been no that would try the effect of response by the Chinese schools to overtures made to them fo come This suggestion, it may be ro work on the day of the opening of membered, was advanced by the Judicial Inquiry. correspondent in the "North-China British MIM! Hands to Chinese Dally News" a couple of days ago.
In view of the dismissal of a number of hands by the Hong
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