It_was decided, now that such authority has been' obtained, to take further "steps in. London.
"Messrs, Ellis and Hays, our ayonts fat Shanghai, inform us that this new application was lodged yesterday and that it Is likely to be heard next 300 Workers Riot At Ewo Mill Shanghai, Sept. 2.
A riot in which bobbins and other objects were thrown at policemen and foreign employees took place yesterday morning at the Bwo Cotton Mill, 10 Yangtzepoo Road. Several workers were injured slightly when police from three stations and the Reserve Unit rushed the buildings in which the mill-hands had barricaded themselves, 'The workers were evicted, a strike' of some 1,000 ensuing. It was hoped, however, to effect the return fof most of the strikers without much delay.
The trouble followed a re-adjustment inthe distribution of labour employed in the No, 2 Mill Weaving-Shed. This shed, it was understood, was being temporarily closed down, but most o¢ the hands employed there were being transferred to other sheds. Only thirty or forty workers were 10 ye Suspended, The workers made a protest 0 the management on the morning of Aug. 31, and the same evening members of the night stof in the shed concerned refused to work.
"SIL Down" Strike of 300
The rot started at about 6 o'clock yesterday morning when some 300 hands barricaded themselves in the weaving-shed about to close and In fan adjoining shed. As members of the foreign star went to the scene they were bombarded with bobbing from within, Calls were sent to the police w reinforce the small squad of policemen already on the premises, and Uniformed and plainelothes parties turned out from the Yulin Road, Wayside and Yanxtzepoo stations and the eastern branch of the Reserve Unit, An effort was made to persuade the workers to leave' peacefully but the latter refused, at the sume time pelting the policemen with various missiles, Finally the police entered the to sheds and ejected the 300 workers, Several of the mill-hands were me jured in the hand-to-hand encounter But none of them so seriously as to all for hospital treatment. The damage to the mill sheds wu" only Mahi, Twa of the" svikers were Other parts of the Ewo Mil, inetuding the new weaving-shed, continued function normally.
A "sit, down" strike of employees fof the Commercial Press Honan Road, near Szechuen Toad, but ment intends to hand aver the men Immediately white the matter is still "The British Government has at all Chinese Shot Dead times stated that the question of the four Chinese prisoners is a judicial matter and should be dealt with upon the merits of the ease.
"It this is so, it is hard to understand why the men are to be handed over before they have their own ease argued la the British courts in China," the Elwell and Binford Hole statement concluded—Havas.
Summons Asked For Tieatsin, Aug. 31.
The British Consulate has, written to the Chinese court, requesting it to present an oficial summons for. the Tu Settlement 6 third murder en night wher Former head by aay unknown sunman Vane 1000 Bubbling. Well "Road Wang died in the Red Cros Hospital THAD Fast night, The dead man had tet i. hume as proceeding in the ye Mreey when of Customs who killed ina threater in the Bri Concession on April 9.
it is hardly likely, however, the men will be handed over t vested by yet" en tse clothing, One of them "vas report to have whipped wut a pistol fired one shot at Wank, that Reuter He Marblehead, Isabel Sail North st Sept. 2 The USS. Isabel, auxiliary yacht of the Commander in Chief of the US. "Asiatic Fleet, sailed from Shanghai for Tsingtao early yesterday morning. head also Toft Shs sharily before noon. yesterda shai abouts yeu one a unable to find ployment, "ie was engaged i a small business dealing in second-hand guess one fas also reported to have been connected sith wt loca scsnbling establishment, Police from Bubbling, Well Station who are' investigating the ease do not believe that a political murder. The behind the nit be
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