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ordinary way. Some police who had been sent out to aid in restoring peace, returned to the Station reporting all quiet.
The trouble did not end here, unfortunately, for the cargo coolies, seeing that they were not likely to get any work, could not bear the thought of other coolies earning money-at least that is! supposed to be the cause of their outbreak. They accordingly proceeded to endeavour to put a stop to all chair and jinricksha traffic. They sent out word to those coming from the east- ward what their fist was, and such chairs or jin- ricksbasas they met after that carrying foreigners they proceeded to upset, and to illtreat the no- cupants and the coolies. Among the fares thus dealt with was Dr. Horder, a medical gentleman of the Church Mission, who was pelted by the crowd. He ran at the top of his speed along Queen's-road pursued by a howling mob of wretches, yelling out eries of death to the foreign devil, and sending showers of missiles after the unfortunate gentle- man. Dr. Horder succeeded in reaching the foot of Gap-street, where a number of police were engaged in keeping in check the hundreds of ruffians who were collected; he was then covered with blood, and in a very bad state, and was removed to the Civil Hospital, which was only a very short dis- tance off. We regret to hear that his injuries are somewhat serious. Another man set upon was the male of a ship, a little to the east of the Man On Insurance Office. He ran for refuge into a Chinese shop, but the people inside promptly bundled him out into the street again, where he was knocked down, his watch and chain taken, his pockets turned inside out and all their contents appropriated, and he was besides roughly treated. Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Whits were also pelter, and had to run for it, and Sanitary Inspector Germainand Police Inspector Corcoran were also pelted while in chairs: Ipector Germain jump [ed out of his chair, and endeavoured to cate} * man he saw throw a stone; he did not succeed, but P.S. Stures, who was near by, seized him. The man clang Kurd to the pillar of a -house, and a crowd forming instantly around, full- ing" ta" and throwing stones, the man escaped, and Sargeant Soares was roughly handled and lost his helmet. The attack on Soares, Germain, and the three constables with them became very tierce. Before the arrival of the police Mr. Gor- main had been in great danger of his life, being surrounded by a howling mob, pelting him with stones. None of the party were armed with any more formidable weapons than staves, which proved insufficient to repel the attack of the Chinese. Soares was thrown down and all were at length driven to seek retreat in the Land we Live In," where the doors were closed against the rabble, who battered at the house with mis- isiles. There were other cases too numerous to mention in detail, but the worst seems to have been that of Dr. Horder.
The proceeding of the strikers cansed some opposition from the chair coolios, who had no de sire whatever to lose their employment, and at about eight o'clock six Sikh constables and a sergeant were sent to Gap-street to keep order. They had not been long there when the mob commenced pelting them. From their nature it is most probable that when they were attacked, they did not aot well together like thoroughly disciplined men, and got somewhat wild in their resistance, as Sikhs are apt to do when not well under control. They will fight well, but are not inclined to work in a disciplined way, other- wise, being supplied with carbines and a good stock of ammunition as they were, they should have been able to keep the rabble at a respectful distance. They did not do so, however, and were driven back along Queen's-road, their retreat 800 becoming an utter rout, the lot taking to
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of stones and other missiles upon them. They reached No. 7 Station in a very batteredate, being out and bruised all over, and eqvered with blood. One man had lost a reveiver andEGBUO NOV 84 an ammunition pouch, and five were so badly hurt that they were sent off to the Civil Hospital, where they are now being treated. They did not take their pelting without sending some- thing back, however, for it was found on their return that a large number of rounds of an- munition had been expended, and as they had been firing into a crowd, it is hardly likely they failed to hit a good many men. Only one dead man
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found, however; he was a powerfully built coolie, who was subsequently found lying in the middle of the road just below the Civil Hospital with his brains protruding from his akull. His body was removed to the Civil Hos pital, where life was found to be just extinct, and his injuries were pronounced to have beon caused by a bullet, most probably from a carbine. No wounded were found, but there were most likely a good many wounded from such an expenditare of ammunition into a mass of men at close quarters; they were probably carried off by their friends. The mob seemed to be most unusually in earnest, and endowed with more than the spirit generally ovinced by Chinese street mobs,
All the available men at No. 7 Station were then mustered at once, and proceeded to the thick of the trouble under Sergeant Komp, and Inspector Corcoran, who is in charge of that. district, telegraphed to the Central Station that the place was in open revolt, and help was re- quired. A body of men, including some mount- ed Indian troopers, was at once sent down, but these did not find a great deal to do just then. Kemp had a pretty lively time of it at the foot of Gap-street, and about the neighbourhood of the Chinese Recreation Ground. Being pelted he ordered his men to charge, and drove the crowd back from the street, but the mob only took up another position on the Recreation. Ground, and continued their stone throwing with unabater vigour. They were again charged and some arrests made, but nothing seemed to stop their stone throwing, and the missiles were still rained thick and fast upon the police by coolies aber them ín the verandahs of various hu...es Queen's-road and Gap-street, the pelting from the houses at that corner heing very effective from the advantageous position of the throwers, who were in a perfectly secure place.
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The situation became 90 warm that the lives of the small body of police were in danger, and then a number of six chambered re- volvers were amplied into the crowd, but with what effect it is impossible to say--anyhow killed or wounded were left upon the groundi. Most probably the rioters carried off their wounded, and perhaps their dead. The most active of the stone throwers appeared to be boys, who displayed a good deal of audacity in this congenial occupation, and a considerable portion of those arrested were lads of the hobble- dehoy stage of development; an element which usually forms a large proportion of a street mob. It is stated that on the Chinese Recreation Ground, where a vast erowd had gathered, some individual read a Chinese proclamation to the assembled multitude, the tendency of which was anything but pacifie, and a mounted Indian trooper there was pelted and knocked off his pony; nothing daunted, however, he was in the saddle again in a trice, and drawing his ord. he charged. He does not seem to have sadj the weapon
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