rioting
wad thai recurred. There was
2.12
fighting
umuaal
number of people in the streets.
What invall crowds did collect were those of spectators of arrests by the Police.
But about 10 o'clock in
the morning the disturbance
began
marked.
of isolated murder
by individuals upon individuals, the objects of attack being principally wretched decrepit hawkers and men like who
were unfortunate
enough to hail from the Tung
Ize Gap districts.
Save on
one occasion,
at 10:30 a.m.
a street hawker was beaten severely about the head
and sent
to the Government
Civil Hospital by the Police.
About an
hour after,
a Jung Koon coolie who was carrying
a load was shot in the
abdomen in Staunton Street by a
man in the street. He was conveyed
to the Government Civil Hospital;
where he died shortly afterwards.
It was with the
greatest
difficulty that the Police
succeeded
in finding
the companion of the murdered man. He has
not been able to
elucidate
the identity of the murderer nor have the Police been
able
to obtain
any information from the shopkeepers
or others
in the street, many of whom
must have
witnessed the murder.
At 12
a clerk in
the employ of Mr. Gourdin
at Tze Yap
was assaulted
in the Civic