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Show Soldiers And Police Clash Again in Colon Corporal Langdon of U. 8. Coast Artillery Killed and Threo Comrades Wounded Colon, April 3. Corporal Langdon ot the United States coast artillery was shot and killed and throo other Amerlcun soldiers woro injured, one of them Boriously, In a riot hero. The soldiers woro engaged In patrol duty du-ty In tho tenderloin district. Tho shooting, which resulted in a general light, was the outgrowth of an argu menl between a soldier who isullcged to havo bcon drinking and u Panama policeman. Many shots woro fired by tho l'an a ma police. The civilians and bol-dlers bol-dlers aro holng unarmed. Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards, om-mauder om-mauder ot tho American forces In tho canal zona, who Is horo to mco; Major Ma-jor Gencial Leonard Wood, comman der ot the department of tho east, lm modlatoly took charge and ordered all soldlors from tho streets. None of tho Panama policemen or civilians was Injured. Tho policeman police-man who sltot Langdon was arrested by ordor of the military authorities and was confined In a guard Uour.c. The shooting occurred near the ball ground, where a team representing represent-ing tho Fifth United States Infantry was playing the Cristobal nine. Some 2000 soldiers of the Fifth and Twenty-ninth Infantry reglmouts. who woro witnessing tho ball game, bocamo bo-camo greatly excited upon hourlng ot the shooting, Missiles were tin own and several porsons woro injurod. The excltemont contlnuod until army ar-my officials arrived and ordered tho men to tako trains for tholr stalons. |