Chief Police Officer Hurt in Chapei Riot: Mill Strikers'
Attack on Tsaokadoo Station Four Chinese received bullet wounds carly on February 20 when the Chapel Police were com= pelled to open fire to disperse a mob over 1,000 agitators who had wrecked the Tsaokadoo Station of the Chinese Police Bureau, off St. John's Road in the Jessfield' village.
Tu the riot Col. Tan Pao-shu, chiot officer, and two other police officers, were beaten. "Two of the rioters also Feceived Injuries. Sixteen persons. were arrested and detained at the Headquarters of the Police Bureau! in. Nantao.
"The mob consisted of the workers of the two Toyoda cotton mills in jessfield Road who went on strike at Gam. following a dagger attack on a workers' delegate by unidentified persons. The conflict with the police arose when the latler afforded pro-{fection to two Chinese Inspectors. the mill who had been accused as the instigators of the dagger attack, Mills Guarded *As trouble developed, the Japanese Special Naval Landing' Party rushed two conipanies, each 180 men strong to the mills as a precautionary mea sure. The Settlement Police. also Sent two riot vans (o the two Toyoda mills located in Jessfield Rood, an extension street. Chinese Police, armed with Thompson sub, machine uns, were also posted at the gates of the mill The scene of the trouble was, how. ever, soon shifted to St. John's Road, short distance away. as the strikers tracked {0 the branch police station to petition the authorities to arrest the two accused mill Inspectors. Incensed by professional agitators, the mob. attacked the police station, Smashing everything on their way.
Col. Tan Paovshu received a deen gash on the forehead over the left eye. He was conveyed home after Ceatment at a hospital. Of the four! workers wounded by gun. fre, only tone was detained in hospital. 'The wounds were inflicted in the thigh, hands or fect, the police hav' cither "fired into the or towards the ground.
'Shanghai' Kuomintang and City Government offals who made vestigallons urged the strikers to Tesume work unconditionally. At pin. 600 strikers, comprising one third of the entire staff, returned to the mills. "The remainder resumed work on the next day. witnesses said the lives of the two men were saved by a hair's breadth, 'As armed police began to xather outside the mills, the disgruntled workfers marched to the Tsaokadoo branch station. When the delegation arrived. it" numbered "well over 1,000, The men jammed the alleyway' in. which the station is located and streamed Into "the one-storey Chinesestype The uly mood of the mob prompt-the police to summon reinforce ments. Slogans lucenting the work. fers were shouted by agitators and when Col. Tun returned from the mills. in dessfleld Toad, he was in mediately mobbed. Two of the policemen who rushed to his ald also Feceived injuries.
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