Penang, July 5.
All shops, amusement parks and cabarets are now closed here to vent looting, following day-long disturbances yesterday as the result of a consignment of soya beans, alleged to be Japanese, having been received by a local Chinese merchant.
While they were being transported from the godowns on Sunday, a party of Chinese ripped open some of the bags, scattering the beans on the road.
Yesterday the beans were conveyed to the headquarters of the China Relief Fund Committee, which was proposing to auction them off on behalf of the fund.
The crowd objected, however, and broke into the building after smashing the windows, Eventually, the beans were transported in lorries through the streets and dumped into the sea amid cheers, After that, the trouble subsided—
Reuter.
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