A sv all slot broke out in Chaoufodistrict on. Saturday and \ttendance of a Japanese naval patrol and municipal police was reaquired to quell it. The mob, which was composed of hostile tram employees—loyal and. striking—who became entangled near the boundary, surged to and from Chapei into the Settlement. Finally the unruly ele-tment were driven back into Chapel after they had fired two. shots—while the loyal workers received the protection of the defence forces.
It seems that two employees had been. sent. into Chapel to call a the boundary when they were assaulted by a number of strikers. Another inspector ran to their aid but the three wore forced to come back into the Settlement near the Chaoufoong Road police box. The mob followed them. only to retreat on the arrival of the naval patrol, at whom two shots were fired. The police found " live, 82 calibre shell in the road after-were made.
As another means of propaganda, we learn from the Chinese news papers, the Students' Union have printed 300,000 post cards of over 80 different kinds, of pictures which are supposed to reproseng the "masance' of May 80, The attempt to circulate. pamphlets entitled "Read the Truth" appears to have caused considerable agitation among the student organizations for at a meet-of Chapei Students on Saturday Read the Truth" circulars were deseribed as an "insult to our country and its people." Evidently the Student Bodies have departed so far from any truthful principle that they find its application distasteful. These words were supposed to have been originally uttered by Gen. Shing Shih-lien, though it is more than certain that the general never said anything of the sort.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.