Passengers in Canton still hesitfate to board British river steamers Jbecausé some members of the Seamen's Union attempt to persuade passengers to take Chinese owned steamers which lie alongside another: wharf close by. At any rate, travel ling on vessels of the Steam [Company is discouraged. When the str. Taishan of the same company returned here the other night, jearried back all the Hongkong car-}goes which she could not discharge in Canton. Coolies were to unload cargoes from Brit for fear of the consequences, The reason for this prejudice against British steamers is that. the Steamboat Company refuses. to reinstate the seamen who went on strike in July last year, On the Jother hand, the Chinese companies have taken back the strikers and missed some of the present staff by giving them a bonus. Those unemployed seamen stationed themselves near the Steamboat Comrity was made up of a lot of students recently who come into the University from the local govern ment schools, and we cannot but help feel that some of them, judg-jing. from their placards, must have been cry near to Moscow at one However, steadier and saner sel prevailed and the uni running in full blast again, ome 35 junior students, who could well be called "undesirables."
The motor road between here and Chénztu is more than half finished ud there remains but a lap at this ud to complete. We are told that the authorities are pressing the de-Hinquents to hires their work.
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