Arrested after the fighting in the offices of the "Lih Pao", a Chinese mosquito paper in Kiukiang Road, near Vu Ya Ching Road, on Monday night, two Chinese were remanded by the First Special District Court esterday until next week on charges of assault and malicious damage.
The two were said to have been hired by the manager of dancing partners of two cabarets in the Settle ment, Meanwhile the police are looking for the manager to appear in court.
The trouble began when a local Chinese magazine published a photo of a Chinese girl, formerly a dancing partner but recently married to the manager. The latter resented the publication of the girl's picture and also the caption which implied that she was employed at a certain At his demand, the editor finally published an advertisement in Chinese papers offering an apology to the manager.
The editor of the "Lih Pa published the whole case in its edition with comments regarded as uncomplimentary to the manager. The editor was assaulted when the newspaper office was damaged by over twenty Chinese on Monday night.
One of the accused detained by the police was said to have been arrested on the scene.
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