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Show LADORER8 WERE CLUBBED. One Way of Securing Men to Build the Panama Canal. Colon. Six hundred nnd fifty laborers labor-ers from Martinique, brought hero Friday on tho French Btcamer Versailles Ver-sailles under contract to work on tho canal, refused to disembark or submit to vaccination, which Is Imperative under tho Amerlcnn sanitary regulations. regula-tions. Thoy clamored to bo taken back to Martinique, asserting that thoy had been misinformed nu to the conditions con-ditions hero before, they embarked, and that later they learned these conditions con-ditions were Intolerable and deadly. Saturday morning, howovor, 500 of them wero with difficulty persuaded to iand, and theso wero sent to points along tho lino of tho canal. Ono hundred hun-dred and fifty remained on board nnd Uocllned to Jcnvo tho ship under nny consideration. These wero forcibly ejected from tho vessel in tho nfter-noon nfter-noon by Panama and cannl zone policemen, po-licemen, but not until nearly overy ono of them had been clubbed and lovcrnl wero bleeding from nasty founds. |