It seems fairly clear feom the reports to hand, however, that the trouble developed out of differences between various sections of the employees themselves, and did not result from discontent with their wages or the conditions under which they work, Another report has it that the employees of the Japanese mills in this district are divided into two main factions. One, the more powerful, apparently. consists of Kompo natives, while the oppos ing faction consists of employees from all other parts of the country who seem to have entered into some sort of alliance. Faction fighting along these lines has been rampant in Chinese territory for some months past but only recently has it spread to the Settlement, Throughout the day there were triple guards at all the other mills the neighbourhood, but beyond re~ ports of some arguments in Chinese mills on the other side of the creek, there was nothing to attract atten: tion, There was no trouble of any kind in the British mille or other me dustries,
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