THE TIENTSIN TROUBLE.
EXTRA EDITION.
AGITATORS AT WORK
CROWDS ATTACK THE POLICE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 13, 12.40. p.m. > PEKING, Aug. 12.
The trouble at Tientsin broke out following the efforts of a number agitators to cause non-striking mi workers to walk out. Police guards, reinforced bv the military; went to the mills All the afternoon the strikers paraded until the temper of the crowds became very ugly. Stones were thrown at the police au<l attempts were made to rush the mills. These culminated in an attempt to rush the police and military cordon or guards, who then fired. Eye-witnesses state that about two hundred shots were fired. The crowd dispersed immediately. The situ Jit ion at present is quiet.—H enter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 August 1925, Page 9
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