The labour situation in th apanese mills of Shanghai yester-lay took on the most hat it has assumed in At east, 90 per cent. of the approximite 15,000 labourers of the Naigai Wata Kaisha cotton mills were back at work following their unconditi al surrender on Wednesday. Within two or three days it is expected that the mills will be working normally, according to the Japanese representtives of the mill Another feature of the situation vhich was noticed in police circles yesterday was the action which the Chapel police are assuming in the controversy. The Settlement police have heretofore been powerless at} the hands of the agitators who would stand on the jotti in Chapel and wait until the workers started across the Soochow Creek to work.
By stationing pickets at the jetties they were able to dissuade the {workers from going to the' mills, mostly through threats. Col, Yen Chun-yang issued orders that. the Chapel police should watch the] jetties yesterday and, as a result, 4 the pickets did not carry on their intimidation
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