At about 10. pam, 500 oF 30 of the workers surrounded the Jessfield police station, and clamoured for their demands' to be, accepted, shout ing. that then and then only wot the she constables be released. By pin, one police officer had_ suc ecaded in persuading the workers to Feturn to their headquarters, promising to carry out an investigation, number of the workers then Aeelded to go to the Hung Chang Factory, at "Connaught Road, and admonish the men there for refusing Join. them in the dispute About 1000" workers swooped down on the iving quarters attached to the face tory, but soon, after they had begun their "invasion" a party of Settle ment-police arrived on the scene, and forcibly broke up the attacking party.
"A. photographer attached photo" department of the Domei News Agency. was manhandled bya mob of Chinese" workers] as he attempted to photograph group of strikers in the ames of the Cotton MTextile Workers? Union of the Third District, Brenan Road, His camera and plate holder were badly damaged, and his specta~ les broken, The assailants, he said afterwards, were from the Hung Chang Silk Weaving Factory, Nobody Killed In a statement issued by Mr. Chang Po-chi, memt of the executive come of the Third District Silk|:
Union, the report that two strikers were killed and 400 others. Fecelved serious Snfuries in a clash with the police in Connaught Read Yas dened. He sold altogether 34 tukers received injuries. The condltion of one Hsu Lai-ting, of the Chen; Kung factory, was very serious, while others were discharged from hospital after treatment.
The injuries, according to Mr. Chang, were inflicted. by officials of tre Hung Chang factory, who threw Drleks at the strikers from the factory not during the incident. The strikers had dispersed when the police arrived fon the scene, he concluded,
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