Assistance wag called in from the Public Works Department of the Tientsin Native City Police, who sent 200 workers to thq spot and these immediately took charge of the power station at Linsi Colliery which supplies the power used at the various mines. With a few loyal workers and some volunteers from Tientsin the _foreign staff are striving to keep. the pumps working to prevent the mines from being flooded. The agitators, who are trying hard to avoid defeat, and who will apparently stop at nothing to attain their ends, are urging the strikes to prevent the working of the pumps.
A strong force, however, was despatched to the spot by General Yang I-teh, Chief of the: Tientsin Police, to preserve order and prevent interference with the working of essential services. Together with the local police, these are keeping the workers out of the mine compounds and under fairly good control. Collisions, however, have occurred between the strikers and the police in several instances which have resulted in injuries on both sides. One fight took place as the result of an at tempt by the police to arrest a man who was believed.to.be one of the leading spirits of the movement.
More Chinese police, as well as two platoons of the Second sith (Coke's Rifles), have geon hurried to the mines to protect the foreigners and prevent attempts on the part of the strikers to damage the property of the Administration. American troops are reported to have undertaken, to protect the foreign residents at neighbouring places.
With the arrest of a few of the ringleaders who, as_ stated, believed to be political agitators, it_is possible that an early settlement will be brought about and further disorder prevented. board the Glen_liner_Glen-arry which was recently in Shang-ai, was one of the most curious Lutle animals. that has ever visited these parts. Many passengers were attracted to the Chief Steward's ecbin in an endeavour to identify it. It reclined in a hole in a piece of tree bark. As it poked its head outside the hole it bore a resemblance sto a monkey, though not quite as ugly. It was about four inches long, with a tail about the same length. Its fur Was brown, white and black; it had the body of a squirrel and the tail of a "possum. The chief steward stated that it was born eight weeks ago in Brazil, where it is known as a marmoset.
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