Officials Clearly Afraid to Control Them: Post Office Strike an Example From Aca Own Consssronnenr, Swatow, Aug. 16, Such hope as did exist of a successful outcome to the Canton boycott conference is considerably on the wane. The dead silence] that has followed its _adjourmnent may not of itself indicate failure; but more significant is the free hand that is being given to the strike associations to denounce the Hongkong loan proposals, and the whole attitude of the Hongkong Government, and to demand much "sincerity' secking a settle-more satisfactory proofs of its
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Whether this is done with official connivance it is difficult to say; for
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