Swatow, Oct, 22.
The staffs of all the British firms have yesterday and to-lay quict'y resumed work without any hitch, with the exception of a few of the more notorious strike leaders, whom their employers, no doubt out tender regard for their self-respect, have advised to find scope for thei demonstrated gifts in more congenial spheres.
Needless to say, there is no men+ tion or hint of this in the newspapers, which still seem to think, in spite of good authority to the contrary, that they can fool all the people all the time. To-day it stated that the central strike com mittee has decreed the concession that "for the time being" cargo to and from Hongkong may be carried without interference in "neutral" steamers, so long as they are not British goods, but that "enemy' steamers shall be barred as hitherto But possibly in a few days more there will be more graceful concessions intimated, or more likely they will be carried out without being intimated.
British steamers are now calling in according to their schedules, but none have as yet brought in or taken away any cargo.
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