To the Editor of the Norra-Cursa Dary News, Sm,—Will you allow me a little of your ing officers in the Mercantile Marine! It rainable space to say a few words regard seems to me that affairs in Shanghai, among our shipping merchants, are at a pretty pass. They are at loggerheads, playing "cut-throat" euchre, wishing each other higher than a kite, and the larger English companies thinking of the ever growing German competition. Add to this the unusual demand for steamer officers owing to the early opening of the Tientain river.
eatzapprvctation hare ages ago' bandod their employes. Engineers having a large at: opportunity fora strike amongst themselves together. They dewanded—
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