Sept, 6.
Steel helmets were in evidence in the French Concession yesterday, Hthe heads of constables on point Jduty and of those on special patrol parties, while the Concession all [day was without its public transport service of trams, railless cars and buses.
All this state of affairs has' [grown from an incident which ocfearred on Friday morning when three electrical alterestion with Later in' the evening a occurred in Avenue Joffre in which four foreign officers of the French Police received bruises, and seven of the crowd were arrested.
Yesterday afternoon, all seven appeared before the newly-created Special District Court for the French Concession and were sent-|7i enced on charges of assaulting the Police and creating 0 disturbance, Four of the men were mechanics the French public utilities compan; fand their sentences were seven, si, and one month respectively, while the remainder, municipal employees, Sach reeredsupended sentence imprisonme: chanics only, some, 600 in number.
The strike is again one of me-
Drivers and "conductors" of the {rans and buses are not on strike, [Dut the absence of public vehicles in the street yesterday was due. 1 desire of the company to avert trouble, 'A riot squad of 30 men, with Thompson. sub-machine guns the tramway sheds "and Electric light station, while. police have closed! the municipal Ployees! club at 171 'Route. de Kawel and Chinese police are guard at the mechanics' union Feadquarters in Prench territory.
"Ar trivial incident at 11. am. started the whole affair. Linemen went to No. 6, Passage 450, Rue Voisin, to instal an electric meter. [They placed their ladder outside the door of No. 4, and-a Chinese gist Tesident in the latter house object-to this and asked the trio remove it. 'This they did not' do, but started to make fun of the tie girl's brother arrived and took het part. "So did neighbour, find quarrel enued, the tro Tathag"Atter'8 pam they Fearn, fo, accompanied bya, number of Srother mechanics, bu they id not
Beaten a fetteat over the Toa tops the et pre, "who when be caw them approach.. The Tiob, however, entered te house and stole his aincont. neighbour followed the "men had taken the. raincoat owe' in Hue Kraetzer, and then constant bad Sarpes arrested two men, sed twe ind took them to Avenue Joffre station. After! interrogation they were released, complainant had appeared in the affair.
In the meantime a crowd of me-Jchanics and some curious municipal lereployees bad appeared in front of the police station, having heard of what had happened. When a good. eonly on the scene, in umber had gathered, there sud~
hire-car, the owner of the' stolen raincoat. He was recognized by ithe crowd, who set upon him.
Police released him after a struggle in which they were grave-outnumbered, and arrested three men, In the fight four foreign members of the French Police srvices were bruised, MIN. Bardy, Chet de Division of the Sireté, Inspector Grimaldi, in charge of the Riot Squad, Sub-Inspector Mesjeans and Detective Tokmakoff. Shots were! ultimately fired in the air by the strong [guard over it, but despite this the crowd showed signs of wanting to! ake trouble. Many tram cars by this time had come to a halt on Avenue Joffre because of the crowd in front of the station, and the [rioters turned their attention these, refusing to allow the dri conductors to carry out their ities.
Senior police affeers then arrived, including Captain Fiori, and the riot squad got busy, and clear-fed up Avenue Joffre," vigorousl many of the rioters bearing awa; souvenirs of the occasion, while four} them were arrested, ringing the total up to seven.
Subsequently it was. decided. not to continue with the service tnat night in view of possibilities of Jéamage, and this attitude continued yesterday, while strong police 45,000. nib cette waa wie "So.
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on strike measures, by Detective ces ae, Dre shiver, Meret, coe meres, Mawes, Sie ans canons sane Tay Keep inloe arly Shanghai, is a fitter of the French Seat ate te eet api mye ome tite ok seg the long coa es corey, tes ie gta foe, Sect oe, can Through the good offices of the French Municipal Police, the Greater Shanghai' Bureau "of - Social Affairs, and Mr. Ta Yueh-sung, Chi nese Ratepayers Association of the French Concession, the miajor~ ity, of strikers resumed "duty yesterday and the remainder, about 15 per cent, are expected to'return to Work this morning.
The men, who declared a general strike for" no", apparent" feason, Feturned unconditionally and they apologized tothe management them andthe public inconvenience company for, "having caus Abcmei, the alleged ring. leader in the trouble, was brought Sefore the ind Branch. ofthe afternoon auf remanded, "O° coe yest
Following mediation by the French Potice, the Bureau of So: cial Affairy and Mr, Tu Yueh-sung, the, strike committee, on Sunday night, issued an order that all men sould resume daty forthwith. The strikers, it recalled, " were the "mechanics employed "by "the French utility company, the drivers land conductors having reported for duty rt during the trouble, Immediately on receipt of this, order most of the night' men went back Yo posts and" resumed Tu view of the fact that, yesterday' was International Youthi" Day, the French authorities closed the barricades in roads leading from the Concession into Chinese territory. but, as no trouble occurred, these were re-opened at noon. Clu ing the period of their closure, 1 trams and trolley buses on rout were unable to run but, as 300 they were thrown open, the viees Were resumed,
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