shot and several thors wore me One worker was wounded by gun-
Jurea "tess "Seriously on July 13. alor othe American-Far Eastern Match Company works, on the north Side of "Soochow Creek opposite Brenan oad. Chapei Police riot satuads, armed with batons, rifles and Sibemachine guns, were "summoned quell the disturbance, while, on the Seitlement side of the creek the Municipal "Police kept order." A Shanghai Fire Brigade "ambulance ioote three' of the "injured workers hospital "ator" they' had been Fereied across the creek.
"The disturbance grew out of some previous trouble othe factory, on July. 6, when agents of the Het, or 'Workers' Welfare. Associa" tion, tried' to collect fees from, the Srmpioyees. "rhe management. took Sdvantage of the cessation of operas tions to make certain repairs fo the plant Th the morning shortly before 11 o'clock, however, some 380 of th Workers, belived. io have been me Bgated' by agitators, went to. the factory, forced. the gates and. Started {oereate havoc "about. the plant, Smashing" machinery, windows" and furnishings. "The Chapel Police despatched: thelt riot "unit to. the Scene andthe policemen made. a Baton charge into the crowd." 'This aid of prove enough to dlperse the Strikers," however and "the police fred several shots' into dhe. als, it Was said. One of the bullets "re-Ported to be a ricochet, hit one of the workers inthe right og, above the "knee." "The mob. dapersed About they of theses Altogether three workers, two men and a-woman, were sent 19 the Chic neve Red Cross Hospital in a Setlement ambulance, "Besides the: man who had been shot, there was another man who had. been srveke on. the Head during the baton charge, and a Woman who likewise had. Suffered Contusions from baton Blows. Tt elleved' that" several. others were tested. for minor injuries meat the Scene of the riot Twas estimated that the damage caused in the riot was between $500 lid' $1.00, "Furniture and windows wore smashed by the men, who ree Fisted the efforts of the Chapel riot Squad 10'dlaperae them,
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