Enormously: "Daily Press"
Reply to "Canton Times"
Hongkong, Feb. 7.
Compradores have formally notified householders of a 40 to 50 per cent. increase in the price of foodstuffs owing to the strike.
The "Daily Press" replies to the editorial in the "Canton Times" of yesterday, as follows:—
"We have not noticed in the press of the Colony any abuse of Governor Chen Chiung-ming, and we are somewhat reluctant to discuss the general question raised in this article, but we are emphatically of the opinion, that if this was a genuine labour dispute, the strike would have come to an end long ago.
"It is permissible to think that the Canton administration is not doing what it might to bring the strike to an end. If Canton were as anxious as Hongkong is, to see the end of the strike, we suggest that the authorities at Canton could best assist in that object by following the example of the Hongkong Government, by proclaiming the Seamen's Union, which refuses to accept arbitration, and which endeavours to secure its aims by intimidation, to be an unlawful society, ard by taking the measures which naturally follow from such action."—Reuter.
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