The Chinese gentleman argued with the soldiers and this gave Mr. Nottingham time to recover bim-self and got to his fect, The disturbance on Friday originated in the military camp, where about three thousand foreiga-drilled troops of Second Division are stationed. Tt peace that the Commander-io-Chief of serious condition, A number foreigners were having loch whea he arrived and they attended to his in-janes as best they could. Mr. Nottingham related what bad hoppeded,. and This order was resented by the troops and some of the soldiers went 80) far as t> disobey it openly. Ao cample bad to be made and the ring-as ordered to receive forty blows with a bamboo, and the sentence was promptly carried out. This enraged hie comrades, and the feeling amongst the troops was such that the shortly afterwards Mesare.
Wedder: Commmander-in-Chief of the First and bora and Ward arrived. Mr. Ladd eae vad. all. Toa galloped up some time later. He bad The resalt of this was that on Friday large weal across the face and was toms forty of the men of the Second much braised. The whole affair lasted Division scaled the walls of the hi about so hour and nothing more was racks and set out to create a di heard of the mob. turbance with a view to getting th A strange incident of the affair was officers into trouble with the higher tong" the main roed to. the ian. that when Mr. Nottingham: was walking thorities. Close to the camp the soldiers came upon a Japanese " show" and they passed several groups of Chinese soldiers, but they did not molest him in|" immediately demanded free admission 0 their right. This demand wae granted, #0 informed, bat when the that only " portion of the garrison was! party got inside they began to create concerned in the rioting. disturbance at ther ery of "Ta" (beat)
The four foreigners were wearing as raised, The soldiers thereapoo Khaki riding costs aad salt cloth bate began to attack the Japaorss showman, At first it was thought that the Chinese whom they put to flight and chased. to might have believed them to be.soldiers, well-stocked Japanese chemist shop. bat such a theory may be dismissed An attack on the shop followed, and io p;, except for the colour of their coote they short space of time: the plate-glass were wearing nothing which bore any windows bad been shattered and every-resemblance to uniform thing breakable smashed to pieces. The
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