The full strength of the Police Reserve Unit, Including four lorries Alled with Russians in feld iit, was thrown into play. on "June 17 in the Pootoo Road district when Chinese labour trouble created a tense situation and the police wet called upon to thwart a mob attack on the Pootoo Road Police Station.
Most remarkable was the achievement of Insp, F. E. Dudley, in charge of the Station, who with afew words caused 200 disgruntled coolies and members of a large crowd of hangers-
Which included 120 six-foot carrying to down their' weapons, poles, spears, pitchforks and. axes. Insp.' Dudley' had with him only ten men at the time, but through what was really sheer bluffing he -made the coolles disarm themselves and disperse and thus prevented {ack on the flour mill about which the trouble centred, With the loafer element, the crowd numbered 1,000 men, according to a conservative estimate, 'The disturbance, which followed a day of unrest among the sible weavers im the Western district, started at 545 pin, in the vicinity' of the Wha Foong Flour Mill, a Chinese factory situated on the bank of the Soochow Creek near the end of Ferry Road.
was caused by the intended ré- placement of 200 contract porters by new crew, but the new workers were not allowed even to enter the grounds, the dismissed men remaining Ju possession armed. with sticks and
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