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Four Chinese dockyard workmen assaulted a coolie as a conclusion to interchange of insults such as "A plague upon your grandmother." The four assaulters, taken to prison, were followed by a dockyard mob. Police fired, killed two, wounded several...
...Tientsin an angry mob rushed the Paocheng mill. One Burton, U. S. manager with his wife and family, was forced to flee. The police first clubbed the irate Chinese with the butts of their rifles. This being ineffective, they fired low into the seething crowd, perforating many legs...
...clubhouse. A champion's arrogance, decided the gallery. Followed the boohs, the hisses. Play began. Miss Wills, despite her poker face, was unnerved by her reception. The British women won the first set 6-0. The rowdies in the gallery roared their delight. Now thoroughly possessed by mob savagery, they jeered linesmen for unpopular decisions, roared down the umpire who tried to silence them, seemed, to feel little aggrieved to see the match, the series, the Wightman Cup, go to the British Women...
Presently a taxi drove through the mob. Out sprang two officers of the law, ran up the Cathedral steps, pounded A woman thrust her head from an upper casement, shrilled, withdrew. The mob laughed, having often during the past month seen the woman in the Bishop's house...
...From the mob emerged three well-dressed lawyers, hastened up the steps of the episcopal home, found the door stoutly barred, became enraged. They pounded. The woman shrieked again. They battered the oak, crawled through, rushed to the stairs where they found five-year-old Oleg Chervinsky howling faithfully...