London, Sept. 27.
An artillery duel was fought across the Straits of Dover today, British long-range guns replying o a bombardment of the Dover area by German guns mounted on the French coast.
The cannonade began at 12.30 pr. G.M.T. when a single German shell landed in the Dover area.—Reuter.
A few minutes later a similar case took place when another striker threw an identical bottle with phos-chorus at another tram at the corner of Avenue Joffre and Route des Soeurs. Several persons were slightly burned, but the criminal managed to escape in the confusion.
Although the strike in the French Tramways has been going for three days, no demands have so far been presented by the strikers. The administration has been able to increase the number of trams, and the total of vehicles in the streets yesterday mounted to over thirty.
Another strike was added to the long list of walk-outs in the city yesterday when about 1,000 coolies of the P.W.D. left their jabs at the Shunteh Road depot. A demonstration was staged at the Markham Road depot when several garbage carts were overturned by the strikers, A similar incident took place in, the Penang Road district where ordure carts were upset by the coolies. Fire. engines from the Ichang Road fire station were called out to wash the streets after the coolies had been dispersed.
No Change in Settlement The transport strike situation in the Settlement remained without changes yesterday since the parties concerned are adamant: in their demands and answers. No incidents have been reported to the police, while Mr. V. A. Essen, head of the Russian employees of the China General Omnibus Company, who disappeared on Wednesday evening after he had attempted to detain the strikers who stoned a truck in which he and other foreign employees were returning to the garage, was released yesterday morning. Mr. Essen was Beja by the Chinese police in their Ediaburgh Road station and, after conversations with the S.M.P., was handed over to Gordon Road police station yesterday morning.
Another C.G.0.C. employee was seized and held for more than three hours on Wednesday night when ten armed men carried away "Bobby" Favacho, well-known soccer player here, and took him to a small hut in the Chinese area, Mr. Favacho failed to recognize any of his captors as strikers of the company, although he has been with the concern for more than twelve years and knows most of the workmen. He was freed more than three hours later.
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