TIENTSIN TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 19019, 14 August 1925, Page 12

TIENTSIN TROUBLE

CONFLICT WITH POLICE EIGHT RIOTERS KILLED Pma Aaociatien—>By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, August 13. (Received August 14, at 1 a.m.) Details of the Tientsin shooting shows that shortly after the withdrawal of the main police guard from the cotton mills a crowd of rioters attacked the mills and destroyed the machinery. The strikers were reinforced farmers and peasants from the neighboring villages. The police were helpless, and over £200,000 worth of damage was caused at one factory, where the rioters smashed the machinery. . . A strong force of police was later sent to round up the rioters, assisted by the military. It is estimated that 800 of the police and military are guarding the mills against 10,000 rioters. An attempt to arrest a number of rioters was resisted, and many of the police were roughly handled. The police fired and an indescribable scene of confusion and panic ensued. _ Being unable to got away from the rifles of the police the leading ranks of the rioters turned to fight those behind them. Many dropped dead and wounded, and others jumped into the river and wore drowned. v The total casualties were sixty. Eight persons were killed and several of the police were wounded. Three hundred *nd seventy-six rioters were arrested. s-Reuter.