Two Policemen Slightly Case Adjourned For injured During Riot Week Bricks, bolts and other formidable missiles were used y Chibese workers in the course of a riot àt the Road early yesterday. Two policemen of the Yulin Road Station a foreigner and an Indian—were tly oan while trying to ler. turbances at foreign establishments in the Eastern district, began at 7 o'clock when the day workers sought to enter the premises. Members of a group of 34 hands dismissed last Saturday for inefüciency were outside the gates, augmented by followers. They attempted to prevent the regular workers from entering, and a call was sent for the police, Uniformed and detective members of" the Yulin- Road Station staff broke üp the gathering in the course of a short but hectic encounter, the dismissed workers and their sympathizers using various impromptu "ammunition" against the police.
A charge of having murdered Lance-Corporal James Davies of the Seaforth Highlanders on the evening of November 4, was read out to Private Eckford of the same regiment who was in the dock in H. M. Police Court yesterday morning, Mr. C. H. Haines, H. M. Registrar, hearing the case.
Mr. P. W. Williams, for the prosecution, stated that the accused was subject to military law and that he was on active service, He asked Capt. J, R. Cole, acting Staff Captain of the "Shanghai Area, to step into the witness box and to identify and read a letter from Major-General Grasett, General Officer Commanding the British troops in China, in which instructions to place the case under the jurisdiction of H. M. Supreme Court here are contained.
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