For twenty-four hours recently the principal streets of Huchow presented that bleak appearance usually seen {only on New Year's Day, The shops had gone on strike and put up their shutters, The reason for this was an order from the police department that the streets must be cleared of obstructions, especially the boxes and goods which many shops kept in front of their premises and the peddlers who had appropriated great parts of the streets for their business. Four policemen, sent out to enforce orders, had a row at one shop: neighbouring shopkeepers and bystanders joined in and the policemen were badly beaten up, one so. seriously tat he had to be taken to a hospi-al. This meant nothing to the shopkeepers, but when subsequently one of their number was arrested the shops along the streets Jointed ins sympathetic strike, lasting from one noon to the next. In the final settle ment the shopkeepers agreed to pay the hospital expenses of the wounded policeman, and the shopkeeper was released without fine; but meanwhile the original cause of the trouble was. allowed to drop into oblivion, so that the streets are still as cluttered up as ever, one short stretch of Jess than 100 yards having' sixteen. ped-Jdiers and. three shops displaying Jeoods on the freet,
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