Passport Regulations to Keep out Bad Men: Agitators Controlling Strikers Peking, July 16.
Consular reports from Canton' throw further light on the walk. out of Chinese employees at.
Shameen, Tt appears that the measures, which (presumably on account of, the recent. bomb outrage). the. Shameen authorities have decided! to adopt with the idea of imposing restrictions upon Chinese entering, the Concession, have met with anything but a favourable reception from those they most nearly affect.
The new regulations, which are said to be the outcome of a conference between the French and British the general meeting, convened by the British Consul-General, and are to come into effect on' August 1. They provide that every Chinese entering Shameen after 9 p.m. must show a passport to the: police at the entrance to the Concession and this passport must be accompanied by a photograph of the person to whom the permit is issued.
Led, it is thought, by agitators eager' to stir up' trouble, the Chinese employed in Shameen, who would mostly be domestic servants and office workers, withdrew in a body at 6 o'clock last night by way of a protest against the restrictions.
Suly 17.
A telegram from Shameen reports that all the Chinese employees. fon Shameen had left the island.
The strikers did not as a group approach the British and French. authorities with any demand or make any notification of their intention to strike, At first the strikers were only employees of the British and French, but the others were forced by agitators and all had to join: the movement.
The strikers stationed pickets at the two bridges leading to Shameen and are threatening that anyone who attempts to enter Shameen will be shot. Chinese purveyors of foodstuffs near: Shameen have been compelled to cease taking supplies to the island. The only Chinese in Shameen on the 16th instant were the Municipal police and they were being threatened and it was believed that they would shortly leave.
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