Fifty Arrested in Kochi for Acts of Violence Osaka, Nov. 21.
In connection with the. rioting at] Kochi on November 19, fifty fishermen have been detained by the police for acts of violence... The others are returning to their homes and the incident is now regarded as closed:
Tt will be recalled that thousands of' fishermen at Kochi made a petition to the Prefectural Assembly, urging that trawlers should' not be Tsingtao, Nov. 20.
Over 20 persons were injured, including four Japanese, -shortly before noon to-day at the Sufangchen factories, of the Dai Nippon Cotton Spinning Mills, as th result of a clash between the spinners at work and about~ 400 striking workers, who are still: refusing to resume work. Tt appears that the strikers had tried to.foree their way into the factory premises™ to intimidate the workers who had gone back.
The possibility of some sort of disturbance had been—foreseen owing to the discontent said to be prevailing among the strikers against the dismissal allowances fixed by the factory owners.
Chinese gendarmes were: called to the scene of the disturbance but they were practically. unable to intervene in the scuffle. The Japanese policemen have. been. detailed to watch against a currence of the trouble.
Tt is said that the day's di turbance was plotted by sym thisers of Wu Shih-yn, the Mayor, of Tsingtao, in' order to drag the present. Mayor, Mr. Fe-hsiang, into a Sino-Japanese complication—Rengo. used along the coast and after gathering outside the buildings foreed their way in,, broke windows and smashed doors.' Several poli tien were injueel during the. dia:
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