Aug. 12.
All local branches of a unions in the city were closed yesterday by General Ting. Chief fof Police, acting under instructions from Tupan Li Ching-lin. In Jaddition all meetings, no matter where proposed, have been for-hidden.
This order was the result of a violent clash yesterday and the day before between Chinese police, reinforced by Fengtien gendarmes, at the Vu Ta Cotton Mill, in Chinese territory near the Belgian Concession, in which two rioters were killed, and several more wounded.
Tt appears that on Tuesday afternoon strikers from neighbouring mills led by agitators, attempted coerce the Vu Ta workers to strike, much to their disinclination. 'Throughout the afternoon the [trouble increased in intensity with] processions and haranguing, and about 4,000 persons in an' ugly mood were ranged against about five or six hundred police and gendarmes sent to help them.
At about six o'clock the crowd
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