A score of Chinese mill appeared before Mr. Tajima ese Assessor) and Magistrate at the Mixed Court on charges of being concerned recent Japanese mill strike and inciting " strikes, by distributing, pamphlets and rioting.
Most of the prisoners. while a mitting that they had sticiss in thei hands, denied that they took part in the rioting. The general excuse was that they had picked the <ticks p after others had thrown them down, Other plewled tha: they saw crowds and they were merely inquisitive and wanted to "look sec." Some said that they west pleasure trips.
In une ense a detective said a Jufter an order had been given the rioters to disperse, they refused to go and he had to and boist it at one prisoners who said to him shoot!" Those charged with ing. the strikes denied this charge fand said that they had been arrest-
The prisoners charged with dis-ruination of pamphlets said that theca had been thrust into their hands by others why had fled at the approach of the police, One man, who was released, denied the charge and said that there were only a few pamphlets on the ground of his house which had been thrown there by the distributors, Two of the prisoners were senenced {0 six months' imprisonment, which term would include the time they had been under remand, nine others were fined $60, with the alte
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