'ORE than twenty riots on side rice shops in the western district of Shanghai, including the "badlands", caused the arrest yesterday of about one hundred Chinese by officers of the various Settlement police static: us in the areas involved. Seven rioters were injured in the incidents, most of them through attempting to storm through the crowds towards the stores of grain which were being freely looted by the mobs. These seven were afterwards removed by Municip: al Ambulances, but it is believed that the total of injured was very much greater, those receiving only minor hurts preferring to find their own way home without calling attention to themselves.
Quantities of rice varying between a few piculs to a hund red piculs were stolen from the shops attacked.
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