Tokio, Feb. 1.
What started as a boycott against the American Shipping Board vessels being operated by the Admiral Line by certain of the lighterman of Yokohama last week ended in murder yesterday, preceded by the descent of a gang of rowdies upon the str. Lake Gitano, the crushing of an independent lighter, the cutting adrift of a number' of other independent, lighters, the serious beating up of one of the American mates of the vessel and a nasty assault with intent to kill upon Mr. John Laffin, manager of the Americen lighterage firm of the Pacific Stevedoring & Landing Company-The man murdered was one of Mr-Tomoye's employees, 2 Japanese, who was visited at his home by armed men and put to death, evidently for refusing to join in the boycott.
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