Hupeh and Kozapo Men in Fight!
Lasting Hours: Suppressed with Blank Cartridge A serious fight in Chapei_ Inst thursday between gangs of Kompo und Hupeh boatmen and, mill coolies resulted in the arrest of seven ring. Jeaders and the serious injury three, Others sustained minor in-
Janes in this affray in which it is estimated that no fewer than 1,000 Jabourers took part, Tt appears from. investigations that enmity had existed between the two rival parties for quite a Jong time. A quarrel which arose ever a collision between two junks, one owned by the Kompo men and the other by the Hupeh men, was the spark which caused a large' conflagration, Mediators had been elected and a temporary truce had been effected but "it was reopened because of the agitation of a few trouble-makers on both sides.
Tne result was that, early on 'Thursday morning, both sides, hear. ing that their rivals had assembled in large numbers, made preparations for a fight. Some 600 Hupeh men, it is said, mobilized on a vacant] spot' in Chapei_and went together to the dwellings of the Kompo men who were strongly armed and had sentries on duty in anticips an attack by the enemy, were armed with poles, knives and swords, and even' pistols, Several policemen who were on duty, realizing that they were in-Auflicient to cope with the huge crowd, sent at onza to headquarters for reinforeemerts. A company of Police were et once rushed to the spot by Gen Yen Chun-yang, the Police Comvairsioner. Fust before arrives, tive fight between the rival factions broke out in real earnest, the Hupeh men firing a few! shots at their opponents, which were returned. Several persons revolved injuries
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