APPENDIX  E
On  December  nth,  1905,  a  serious  organised  riot  occurred  at
Shanghai,  the  provoking  cause  of  which  is  described  in  the
following  narrative.
THE  OUTBREAK  AT  THE  MIXED  COURT
Fight  between  Police  and  Runners
Extraordinary  Incidents
The  tension  between  the  Municipal  authorities  and  those
of  the  Mixed  Court  reached  a  climax  on  Friday  morning,  when
an  attempt  to  carry  out  contradictory  orders  from  the  Bench
led  unfortunately  to  an  exchange  of  blows  between  the  municipal
police  and  the  native  runners.
There  was  a  preliminary  to  Friday’s  occurrence  on  the  preceding ­
  day,  when  the  Magistrate  (Mr.  Kuan),  after  making
another  futile  protest  against  the  presence  of  the  police  cadet
in  Court,  and  his  supervision  of  the  proper  execution  of  the
sentences  of  the  Court,  retaliated  by  sending  a  runner  to  the
Central  Police  Station  to  see  that  they  did  their  duty  there
properly.  The  selected  runner  spent  a  long  and  presumably
rather  tedious  day  in  the  courtyard  of  the  Central  Police  Station,
where  he  was  allowed  to  remain  unmolested.  We  understand,
indeed,  that  a  letter  was  sent  from  the  Council  to  Mr.  Kuan
congratulating  him  on  the  interest  he  had  suddenly  taken  i n
police  administration,  and  offering  his  representative  every
facility  for  gaining  useful  information.
Circumvented  in  this  attempt  in  his  policy  of  annoyance,  a
policy  which  Mr.  Kuan  has  himself  declared  he  has  orders  from
the  Taotai  to  pursue,  it  would  seem  that  only  the  opportunity  was
wanted  to  force  matters  to  a  more  serious  issue.  There  are
indications,  in  fact,  that  Friday’s  disorder  was  premeditated-Early
  in  the  session  the  Magistrate  had  a  difference  with  the
British  Assessor  (Mr.  Twyman)  over  a  case  which  had,  he  said,
been  ordered  for  hearing  on  another  date,  and  which  he  noW
refused  to  hear.  The  real  trouble  came,  however,  when  two
women  and  three  men  were  put  before  the  Court  on  charges  m
kidnapping  girls  from  their  homes  in  Szechwan.  Fifteen  young
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