GENDARMERIE, Wounded Men Who Insisted on Travelling First Class Another affray between regular soldiers and the railway gendarmerie took place on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway on July 16, near the Chenju While the results were not, so} serious as the affair which took place at Nanziang about a fortnight ago when a soldier was killed and a couple of others were wounded by the gendarmerie, Monday's occurrence certainly was not of a minor! nature by any means.
It appears, from reports available, that a number of wounded soldier from Hangchow boarded the train the Shanghai North station. "Some entered the first and second close partments. but were promptly evicted by the gendarmes, who ordered them to go into the third class lages. This they refused to do} and in turn assaulted the gendarmes.
travelling ticket examiners, disarming the former as they did so, Two gendarmes were severely injured but a third escaped and has since not been found. The ticket examiners escaped with minor injuries The matter was reported at Soochow and the wounded soldiers who began the trouble were taken into custody and brought back to} Shangh Mu, Vu Ya-ching, former Chairman of the Chinese' General Cham-liber of Commerce, has telegraphed to the various military leaders urging the immediate reduction of the army and the organization of a Preparatory committee in this connection. He has promised to secure whatever funds are necessary.
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