Once more the strikers showed themselves in an ugly temper yeeterday, and, enraged at the non-fulfilment of the promises of pay made by their leaders, set to work wreck premises and'to loot. "The wrecking of premises—thoce of one the unions—was a sign of their sleep anger: the looting. wus con. fined to food-shops, and was to meet their bodily wants, "So venous was! their attitude that the French had to be mobilized to. situation in hand, the incipient vies having occurred on the burders of Concession, The scene of operations was the fice of the Shanghai. Provisional Safely Preservation Society Boulevand des Deox Republiques and here thousands of wharf coulles assembled in the morning in. the hope of "drawing strike" pay.! apparently "none of the. union eficials "was present, or at rate no pay was forthcoming, sind after waiting until half. past ight o'clock the patience of "the Crowd became exhausted." Then tee crowd became a mob, and proceeded Yo attack the building. The wine flowt ere battered in with stones! tion of the Chi pal ris inks, and but far the inierver lines potice who held
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