CHINESE TROUBLE.
£by telegraph—per press association.] SATLORS ATTACK Ml). SHANGHAI, April 27. British bluejackets gave two richshaw coolies more than double the legal fare, but the coolies demanded two times more. When the sailors refused they attacked them. Other coolies joining in, one sailor being stabbed twice. Chinese police instead of assisting the station, from where they were escorted sailors carried them off to the police to their ship. None of the coolies were arrested.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 3
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75CHINESE TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 3
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