Ichang, Aug. 6.
The fracas on the Robert Dollar Company's str. - Alice Dollar has- caused considerable excitement in the port.
The Alice Dollar after a peaceful return trip to Chungking arrived in port in the forenoon of July 30. She immediately loaded. up with cargo and passengers for another trip to Chungking, und was advertised to sail at daylight on Wednesday, August 1.
It appears that a civil official, named T'an, who was going to Chungking to take up a position as Taoyin under the northern government, booked a second class passage. He asked for the favour of as good accommodation as could be given, and suggested that he might have a cabin to himself. The compradore said that might be impossible if the ship were full, but he would bear his request in mind. About seven or eight o'clock he went on board, and a military Fu Kwan, named Liu, who is attached to the staff of the Commissioner of Defence of Ichang and Shinan, General Chao, declared that he wished to see him on _board. It appears that Liu had been to a dinner party just before that, and it is said that he was quite drunk. It is stated that friends at the party tried to dissuade him from going on board, but he would not listen to any one, and set off for the ship, accompanied by his bodyguard) of about a dozen me some of whom were armed wit pistols. When he got on board, and saw that his friend, the expectant Taoyin, had been put in a cabin with two other passengers, he immediately said this was not good enough, and ordered his bodyguard to remove the baggage of the other passengers. Naturally an appeal Was made to the compradore, and when oxposiulations were made with the Fu Kwan, deputy of General Chao, he assaulted the compradore and some of his staff.
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