Foreigners Forced to Return by Hostile Acts of a Painted Crowd Foreigners motoring "along the Rubicon and other extension roads in the western district on Sunday. were compelled to ran the gauntlet of knots of Chinese assembled at short intervals, whilst in the villages quite large crowds were gathered. There was a great deal of verbal abuse and threats of violence with sticks and bamboo poles, whilst it was subsequently reported, to the S. M. Police that in" many cases stones were thrown. The demon-strafers, however, could not have been very serious, for, so far as could be ascertained, there were no serious injuries, either to people vehicles.
Considered in conjunction with the fact that incendiary pamphlets, which in the past few days have been scattered over the Yangtszepoo and other industrial districts yesterday were widely distributed throughout the western district, it ig assumed that these demonstrations had something to do with the labour troubles and the Banri Maru case, although there was nothing, definitely to indicate that fact, Exciting Scenes on Sunday Subsequent reports show that the demonstration was rather more serious than at first was understood, and at least one party of foreigners! had a very unpleasant adventure, being saved from worse by the presence of mind and prompt action of Mr. J. E. Hargreaves, manager for China and Japan for Messrs. Babeox & Wilcox, Ld, Mr. Hargreaves has had' many exciting! adventures in Russia and other} countries and does not count this by any means as the worst, but it would be quite enough to' satisfy' many people in thees nervous times, Mr. Hargreaves, with his sister, two children and a nurse, went for a drive round the Rubicon in an open Morris ear and about 8.30 p.m, was just on the curve of the road] approaching the bridge at the Rubicon village—a place with a distinctly unsavoury reputation, as all paper-hunters and other cross-country riders know. At any time, the villagers there are decidedly touchy, though Mr. Hargreaves. inclines to the belief that those concerned in the story to be told were not agriculturists, The Red Turbans A big motor car, containing four Chinese, "just previously had flashed past and Mr, Hargreaves noticed that it stopped near the bridge, At the same time he became aware of a scuffle which struck him as something more than the common Chin-ere wrangle and accordingly he also stopped. The Chinese car went on and then the occupants of the second car beheld a gathering at once]
jus and comic. There were! several score of men, mostly wearred turbans or bands of red sound their heads and with their faces streaked with red paint, whilst nearly all carried rade weapons—sticke, Iknives and sickles tied on poles," and various other things ich would be very dangerous in a high!. Mr. Hargreaves's engine had stalled, but he promptly got it going and put in the reverse, backing down the road at the best speed consistent with safety. Simultaneously the motley crowd came on, to an attack, not in an attempt to prevent the car progressing forwards. However, they had waited too long and Mr, Hargreaves. got to one of the cross-roads, where he ras able to turn the car and $0 was afe. He held up ten other cars and persuaded the occupants also to turn back, which all did, although for men for a time considered 'a rush for the bridge,
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