Holiday to Greet Southerners Or a Communist Attack on All Order? ally every industry foreign settlements and the nati districts was idle yesterday as result of the proclamation issu the Inbour unions to declare " hi day to welcome the Nationalist army It is estimated that there were the neighbourhood of 150,000 m4 and women on strike, The following is an approxi ti of the number out in each distri Yangtzepoo 38,046 Pootoo 35,827, Wayside 16,643, BubNin Well 15,252, Gordon. Road 112 Hongkew 2,000, Chinse cities 10,5 Pootung 12,700 and. French C cession 400." These figures do 1 Include the thousands of aval shops that, closed their doors ror they include the post effec a1 smaller industries, In Chapei ther was hardly a shop open while ce ditions were almost the same in Native City and Nantao, The Riverside power plant the Waterworks employees hay gone out, but the work is bei carried on by foreigners and the is no danger of other of the servi being cut off.
Officials can give no iden of th Length of time the strike 1s likely last. The end might come to-day 4 trow after the ye been properly welcomed, might last for weeks—it pro ball would if the Communists have sis way about matters,
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