Shanghai, Sept. 17.
Six poor Chinese, three of them women, are lying in the St. Marie's Hospital in a serious condition os a result of injuries they received yesterday morning at a. cheap rice distributing booth erected Ju Rue Porte de LOuest near Avenue Dubail, where more than 1,000 people' gathered in order to get the first chance to buy the rice. One of the victims, a woman aged more han 60 years, suffered serious eoncussion and fractured ribs and tay crowds of poor people also thronged other cheap rice booths in the Settlement and. Concession for the purpose of buying at only $20 per picul some of the 8,000 bags of Saigon tice recently brought. by Chinese civic leaders here. There was some disorder but as a result of a mad stampede in which the poor tried to elbow for better positions to buy the rice the above "mentioned accident occurred in one of the two booths in the Concession.
The civic leaders bought 18,000 bags of Saigon rice in all' but 10,000 bags are for refuges, The movement of buying Saigon rice is continued, There are three booths in the Settlement and they are located in North Honan, Avenue, and Penang Roads, Chinese Constables Robbed of Pistols Shanghai, Sept, 16.
Three Chinese constables. attached to the Gordon Road police were sur= prised last night by 18 robbers who Fobbed them of their service. pistols before they could offer resistance while they were un patrol duly Jessfeld Road near Connaught Road. The daring crime was committed al about 743 p.m. when the men suddenly dashed from ambush and attacked the Settlement police oticers who were thus outnumbered. Tt was stated by the Gordon Road police Fast night that 12 of the desperadoes carried Mausers. AN of them have
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