$6,000 Loss Caused at Japanese Mill Trouble whick had been brewing {or the last few days came to a head last Wednesday when about 100 hands, mostly women, staried a riot at the! Vu Fong Mills, 2866 Yangtszepoo Road, a Japanese cotton-spinning factory,' smashing machinery and win Jdows and damaging stock. The loss was estimated at approximately $6,000, Jand 25 men and women were arrested Jon charges of intimidation and mal-felons damage. As further trouble was feared, the police at Yangtszepoo Station and the Reserve Unit stood by that night, 'The outbreak followed a short-lived strike amongst the night shift at the mill, but the reason for this strike and' attendant intimidation hed not been definitely determined at a late Jhour last night. An investigation is being carried on simultaneously by the Stanghai Municipal Police, the JJapanese Consular Police, and the: [Japanese Naval Landing Party, Out rly, the place was calm that night, with the night shift working normally. Tt will take several days, however, to repair tke damage, Lowpow mail of February 24, tr mitted via Siberia, was delivered in [Shanghai on March 12,
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