Eleven coolles, arrested by Yangtszepoo Police, were remanded by the First Special District Court om July 10 for further Investigation in connection with' the faction fight in Meichow Road, near, Chaoyang Road, on July" 9 which culminated, fu the death of. Chinese Police Constable 1895 and the injury of a group of participants.
was reported that the melee developed from a grudge held by a member of the Ningpo gang of coolies against a Shantung coolie for the latter's, refusal to lend him 2 Dieyele. AE about 730 pin, scores of loafers from both sides gathered in Meichow Road and stoged a free-for-all. The constable, a native of Shantung, who attempted to; inform the Yangtszepoo Police Station by telephone of the disorder, was set on by the loafers. He died. of stab wounds shortly after admittance to hospital.
The eleven persons, five of whom fare natives of Ningpo, were arrested fter the incident by detectives. investigating the case. Four of them are still in hospital nursing knife wounds in the head and body,
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