Gathering for a further effort, the crowd swept back the police cordon across the street and once more gained the entrance to Louza station. It was a heaving, surging mass, the ground strewn with hats and garments lost in the struggle, rs-by who had quite in-been drawn into the mob being willy nilly carried in the zen: eral rush towards the station gates This time the ery was raised, "Kill, he foreigners! Kill the foreigners!" and there can be mo doubt that if the gates of the station had been stormed the compound would quick-Hy have been filled to overflowing with a now wildly excited and ponsible mob. The call for reinforcements had by this time been answered, among the first to arrive being a number of officers who had Deen called away from their games on the Recreation ground and who Joined the general melee in sporting, tire, Still, the number was rot efficiently strong to clear the station precinets, ard when once again the students sured forward [with eries of "Kill the foreigners," {Inspector Everson, who is in charge at Louza, gave the order to fire. The order was promptly obeyed by the Sikh constables, and four Chinese were killed on the spot. A num. ber of others were wounded, and there was then a wild stampede for safety. Within " few minutes, the street in the immediate vicinity of the station was cleared. the wounded were their student friend mained lying on the ground, and these were at once removed into the: [station compound, where a grieve clit presented itself, four dea yunded and others less severely damaged.
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