Shanghai, Oct. 4
A. typical Chinese rental dispute' was referred the First Special Di: trict Court yesterday when Tseu sen. an actor of the warrior eas brought before the tribune ged with assault in which he lesed to have beaten his kand-
September 20 a howe in Burkill Road where the accused is a sub-tenant. When the landlady, an aged woman, asked him to increase the rent he became so enraged that he fought her with bare fists. The matter was Tater referred to the police. Accused told the. court that "he had only. beaten her once, explaining that the plaintiffs action drew fire at a time wher hho was fighting hard against the ever-increasing cost of living.
The landlady gave her version of the story. She said that she had charged the accused only $14 for two. rooms one of which the latter recently sub-let to another family of several persons,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.