A LITTLE REVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 69, 16 March 1912, Page 8

A LITTLE REVOLUTION.

Paris had a little Chinese revel ii lion of its own a few weeks ago. Thor v. ore only three Chinese engaged L ii, but they created a disturbance tha caused considerable alarm in a qnie corner of the city. The scene was f little. shop belonging to the three Li Liang Fo and Sao King Fo ©mi grated from their native land som, months ago and found employmen with a Parisian manicurist. They pro’, ed to be expert workers, and lielped h make their employer’s establishmen. popular, but as soon as they had am assed a tiny little fortune they Je; him. They clubbed their funds together and took a little shop, and then business prospered so rapidly that then sold a share to one of their compai riots, Chu Foo, Loo. Unfortunately tlu new partner and the two others dk hot agree in politics. The nows of tin revolution in China was welcomed' b\ Sao King Fo and Li Liang Fo, whi assured their customers that thej were very good Socialists and ven ardent reformers. They cut off thei. pigtails and burned them, but thev could not induce Chu Foo Leo to fol low their example. They argued ant disputed among themselves,'and’final ly they quarrelled violently, but tin two good Socialists could make m headway against their partner’s ob stinato conservatism. Sao King Ft and Li Liang Fo discussed the situation together and agreed that theii companion must be brought to a sense of his wrongfnlness. After all the customers had gone one afternoon they locked the door of the shop .am.' proceeded to tell Chu Foo Loo thai they could live with him no longer unless ho would signify Ids allegiance tribe revolutionary cause. For a time lie paid little heed to them, but when they snatched their scissors and attacked bis pigtail Ids blood was stirred. Ho is a big man, and be fought bard with bis two partners. Nails, toetb, scissors and knives wore brought into play, and when Chu Foo Loo was rescued lie was suffering from many wounds. But his pigtail was intact, and in hospital be remarked quietly "that be would go through another little revolution rather than lose this most precious possession.