Two members of the police fore", to cross the river from Hankow to Wuchang, refused fares on the ferry bBbat, one belonging to the Lis in (Hamonious Spring) Ca, A all through trafic ceased, There was no express service frat April 1G to the end of the year, Conditions gradually went from bad to worse. Chinese. section locomo-ives were run, or kept in steam, night and day by the soldiery with:
Srangle with the Wredeand'om heating of the affair,|derailmentx and collisions Ww teketretice eae [out proper attention or Tepalrs,
{he chief of the police cand See until there wax seaveely Feng, sent to have the cketsllor win kunming order" on the arrcvied, The managers of the rection, Much damage wae Conpany refused to sive bim ups /done t" stations; doors and window trid on hearing this Mr. Hsu sent being tora out, electrical instru oil men, Who arrested two of tha] ments stolen wx smashed, and tickets managers, all an attendant" who] and documents wantonly destroyed. the" Ho eh'vin tea- Of 1.400 tabled express trains ons hop. hat the men] 264 tan and of 730 slow through were 1 "inealted "be- trains, only 408 fore be tthe police station, ood dear of]
nage was done in the tea-shop by] There were veeasions when it be-the breakage of furicore Vath wp-feame necessary for the British section to withdraw from Shum The Ho Ch'sin i a feisly powerful Chun Station and. make. corpora do not intend Siding the terminus, where the a take this tying down. They have Hongkong Government" stationed) to Peng a fil acco amivols 03 prevent ngated with, the Governor, ass 8 from cross alm once neconery the matter shall 4 flee denied shat the matter shall withdraw from the Sha Tau Kok terminus for the same reason fe that the two policemen were During the year the Britisie sec plain clothes, and that their emtion suffered considerable incon ployee had no means ut arvertaining they: were really in oficial employ. Yenience by the retention of ite the othe basal, Hee Beas Hoos stock by the Chinese section, that hrs men weve crossing] Wins £0 the' commandeering the river on public Yusiness, the Chinese section rolling stock that in such a ease payment ought the military for the not to have been required So far as it appears from the native press, the arrest was legal, and was moreover a brutal exhibition of the improper use of authority, Tt remains to be seen whether justice will be done. troops and mil general interference with the work: ing: of the Chinese section, the British section wagton stock' was held up on that section with the result that goods destined for Canton ae-cumulated in the railway good shed at Kowloon to such extent that
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