Tsingtao, June 5.
The Governor, Mr. has promulgated a set tions governing relations between employers and employees. They provide that employers secking Inbour must state the number of working hours and the wage scale: in a case of misunderstanding there shall be peaceful adjustment of all disputes and no. violence: before a labourer can be discharged Proper warning must be given and his wages must be paid to the Gate of his dismissal: no labourer must be punished by his employer but be handed over to the police: any employer guilty of harsh treatment of an employee shall bbe tried and punished.
Plans are' maturing for the! establishment -of a University here. The Bismarck Barracks are suggested as suitable for the pose and are being renovated. They will afford accommodation for several thousand students.
Arrangements are being "made to hold a Child Welfate Week, commencing on June 19, which include a baby show.
There have been several arrests of opium smugglers recently. 'The latest captures were made on successive days on the Kino-T: Railway. A waiter in a dining-car was found in possession of two packets of opium, containing 160 ounces, and the next day 69] ounces' were found in a basket carried by a woman passenger.
large haul of arms and ammunition has been made by the harbour police. Their attention was directed to a godown from which large boxes were being removed. The police examined the boxes and found them to contain several hundred rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The owner of the garage and his employees, who are all Japanese, have been handed aver "to thei Consular authorities The Governor has taken vp the matter of establishing a through freight service between the Kino-'Tsi_and Tient cow Railways. Some alterations in the station Platforms and railway yards at Tsinan will be necessary. It is reported that the Ministry of Comniunications approves the Proposal—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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