Troops Disperse Mob: Two Wounded in Fight Two workmen were wounded and 85 others were arrested by men of the 36th Division, following the siege of the Eighth District Police Station in Wusih by 300 coolies engaged in the construction of the Soochow: Wasih highway on July 29. The trouble started when ten of the highway "workers demanded todgings ata house at Liuhongehang, in Choubsinchen district.. 'The woman who refused to admit the men was beaten and severely injured. On seeing this outrage, her son asked for assistance fromthe head of the district, who likewise was. assault by the' workmen.
Informed of the incident, a police party from the Eighth District Station Tushed to the scone and attested six of the ringleaders. "An hour later, 300 colleagues of the six who-were locked ]up in prison stormed the police station, setting free not only the six men but fall others detained there, Inspr. C.
Cheng was badly' beaten, while sixteen tines were carried away by the mob.
The headquarters of the 36th Division at Wusth immediately sent troops to the rescue of the police. In view of the ugly mood of the mob, shots were fired, wounding two of the workmen, Altogether 90 persons were rounded up, but five of them, found to be not involved in the onl: break, were released, Tue Ministry of Foreign Affairs has notified the Japanese Embassy that no foreign consul is to be permitted to be stationed at Chengtu and requests that the new Japanese consul there be withdrawn.
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