A free-for-all staged at the Majestic Ballroom of about 1i-pin, on Chr maz Eve landed nearly. 38. members at the U. S. Marines and Navy and {allan servicemen in. their" service hospitals tome "of them. suffering {om severe injurlesewhile one of the Tallans, it was. reported. yesterday, Had succumbed to he injuries. This however, could not be confirmed.
The fight, one of the bigges: over staged Im any cabaret here, involved About 100 persons, following an argu-mont. between an American' seaman fand an allan sailor in the hall {he ballroom. The misunderstand dic not go beyond words and the parted.
Later, however, when the American returned to the cabaret, he Was seen by the Tin, who, i i sad, pointed him out to his (lends, with the result that the latter attacked him, while American Marines. present were. not fong in helping their friend in dis tress During the Aght, 4m Hatian warrant nicer vas seen to pull out a service Fovolver, but he war grabbed by an American sailor and pushed out of the ballroom. Tt was said. that fell through a stindow and sustained Serious injuries.
The fight lasted only twenty minutes, the arrival of American and allan patrols batling a stop to the fracas, after Sikh. members of the International Settlement. Police a fatled to do s0.,"The injured service nen were taken 10 hospital.
"The Majestic Ballroom was perhaps the. heaviest loser of the ight, the Inanagement sustaining a loss of ap. Drovimately. $8000 in. unpaid chits broken furniture The ess, how fever, will be: paul for by the italian Suthorities who. itis reported. haw apologized to the Americans for the incident and have promised fo pay fo" the damages.
"The fiht yeas not without is comic side, some of the cabaret patronize, comers. One of the far roughly" pushed against a bass rum, while others ahricked for help the ght grew in ferocity. The iimely arrival of the patrols put an trid to a sorry episode Reyellers D: shanghai, Dee, 28, In a critical tone. the Chinese press points out tween the eve In Shanghai, ballrooms are said to have crowded to. capacity with Chinese' pleasure seekers and celebrants and the Incowes of ihe ballrooms on that night alone are said to amount to well over $1,000,000. On "the same hight, 82 bodies were picked up {rom streets in the Settlement by the Shanghai Public Benevolémt Cemeters.
Without mentioning the income of cabaret girls, the report estimates that the seven leading Vallrooms here each received an income ranging alone. There are about '30 second class Chinese ball-Tooms each earning an income of about $10,000, Tt is made clear that night clubs and gambling houses are not counted.
Among the 82 bodies picked un on Christmas eve, only 23 were those of adults. On Christmas day, 32 ead adults and 47 dead children were collected by the cemetery.
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