CHINESE COOLIES RIOT.
POLICE PARTY ATTACKED. STRIKE IN MALAY STATES. Two Chinese eoolies have been shot and 50 arrested in disturbances following a strike on a rubber plantation at Kuala Lumpur m the Federated Malay States. The trouble began when striking coolies on the Bolton Estate captured a Chinese detective. The detective was released by <0 armed police from Kuala Lumpur who. arrested 10 of the strikers. Other strikers then mounted bicycles and made a mass descent on Kuala Lumpur to demonstrate, attacking a police party on the way. , ■, The cyclists were eventually routed, chased 15 miles, and many arrested by armed police sent out in motor buses from Kuala Lumpur township.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 101, 31 March 1937, Page 9
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112CHINESE COOLIES RIOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 101, 31 March 1937, Page 9
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