Jack Ashore.
Q — (Per Press Association.) New York, March 15. A telegram from Vancouver Island reports that the mail Bteamer Empress of Japan has arrived there with an account of some lively disturbances at Hongkong between British, French, and German sailors. It is alleged that a Frenchman stabbed a boy belonging to a British cruiser at Hongkong, whereupon the British sailors challenged the French sailors then in porl saying that the insult could only be sat*. isfied by a conflict, which must, however, be hand to hand and without weapons. The French accepted the challenge, and thd ground of battle having been selected, a lengthy and fierce battle ensued. The French were beaten, and several of them thrown into the harbor. The following day there was a figbfc between some Hongkong police officers and a party of drunken German sailors, in which the latter had the beet of it. Some British sailors hurried to the assistance of the police. Clubs were used and a atubborn fight took place, ending in the Germans being driven to the edge of - the docks and pushed into the water. The British sailors then retired, and the police then saved the Germans from being drowned, find helped them out of the water. No fatalities occurred during the disturbance. — London Evening News.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 219, 19 March 1897, Page 2
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