Set upon by a hooting, howling mob of refugees, workers and loafers, two Japanese were badly injured and maimed on The Bund at about 2.30 clock yesterday afternoon. When the police finally managed to drive the hordes back, one man lay on his back in the middle of the road, outside the Cathay Hotel, his face broken and bleeding, and his body bearing the marks of innumerable blows. The other was cornered in the alleyway beside the Yokohama Specie Bank.
The trouble started when eight Japanese civilians, wearing khaki ceps and breeches, landed from, a
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