Soochow, May 31.
Inside the walls Soochow is again practically ricsha-less. It is the old feud between the outside the city ricshas, and those within the walls. This afternoon tke outside men again tried to operate within the city, and all the inside men have gone on a strike. Thers are a few strike-breakers attempt ing to operate within the city, but they are soon stopped. Your correspondent interestedly watched three police preventing a fight between a score of strikers and three strike-breakers, but while lhe police were busy separating the fighters, a few strikers opened the tyre valves on the ricshas, and the tyres went flat of course, There is still talk of opening a new city gate in the north wall opposite the railway station for a "horse road," but in Soochow it usually takes several years for talk to materialize; and also the leading business men both in and outside the Changmen have always fought this scheme, fearing that a great deal of their trade would be turned to this new "horse road."
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