Hongkong, Nov. 13.
As a result. of the conference in Canton on November 10. between Chinese merchants and the strikers' executive discuss to calling 2ff the strike against} Hongkong, a delegate has arrived in Hongkong on behalf of the (nese merchants of Canton with a view to conferring with Chinese members of the Legislative Ca cil. and the chairmen Chinese Genet Tto ascertain the latter's attitude [towards the tentative proposals drawn up by the Canton conform ence in connexion with the strike and boycott—Reuter's Pacific Service. were discovered by Chiang to. he handing in reports which greatly exaggerated the number of mouths] to be fed. So violent was Chiang's wrath at that time that there was consternation in the union ranks, word being passed around that the generalissimo was about to drive all the strikers from the city, On top of that came the arrest of Wong] Ching-wai who, together with the late Liao Chiung-hoi, were the best loved of all those prominent in the labour sphere. Why Chiang caused to be confined at Whampoa, nobody seems able to know, but it is a fact that, though he has since recovered his liberty, every working man with whom T have talked has expressed deep resentment because of the action Chiang took in the case of their idol.
One of the Shameen consular officials with whom I discussed this subject the other day said that from what he can gather many still be-the event of forceful mea sures to terminate the strike.
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