Two days ago there appeared upon the streets six brand-new motor lomnibusee. plying along the various maloes" that now intersect the! town. They were seated for 12 to be filed all the time, with several straphangirs in addition. To-day three of them are lying at various! points slong tke Kialat road, the wooden bodies smashed to firewood, and the engines beaten to a pulp; and the other three are to be found' drawn up opposite the head police station in a condition only slightly less dilapidated.
This is the result of an organized attack upon them by the ricshamen's union in the early forenoon. A body! of between one and two hundred turned out, some armed with crowbars, axes, and hammers, and the! rict™ with "hefty bamboos, and! systematically wont for them one after the other. They blocked the read with overturned rieshas to make them stop, and then a minute or two completed the work. The police contented themselves standing guard over the framents that remained, and telling the curious crowds to move on; and a body of soldiers came doubling on to the scene after all was over, but the rioters were dispersing and transforming themselves into peaceable citizens again.
Certainly the temper of the rioters was such that the police would have come off vary much the worse if [they had tried to interfere. Nothing but rifles could have stopped them. The rieshamen declare that on the to days on which the buses were running their earnings dropped by' one half—wkich is no doubt an exaggeration, but not wholly remote from the truth. This affair creates 'a nice problem for the new mayor. The omnibus company was duly registered, and, presumably, guaran-teen protection by him, and was paying a very heavy charge for the monopoly.. This is a pretty example of the mob rule to which we shall make up its mind to make. the Inbot unions understand. that thi kind of "imperialism" is not tolerated.
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