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A statement has been issued by the Consuls-General for Great Britain and France in Shameen which contains the terms of the settlement of the strike. They ar2 as follo (1) The two Municipal Councils agree that the new police permit regulations shall not be brought. into force, thus automatically reverting to the old pass regulations hitherto in force with certain amendments which shall enforced simultaneously and on equal terms for all nationalities alike; (2) The Councils agree, in the special circumstances under which they left their work, to encourage the reinstatement of private employees and also the payment! of their wages for the period of the strikes (3) Public employees shall be reinstated and their wages pail for the period of the strike: reservation is made in the case of the police on the question of Giseiplinary measures, which be finally dealt with according. to the discretion of the Councils; (4) No reprisals shall be made Agreement" clearly laid down the oon-reinstatement of the police and the measures to be taken.
On August 12, after numerous notes pronouncing in the aggregate the terms to be fair and just, Mr. Luk King-fo of the Provincial Bureau of Foreign Affairs called on the British Consul-General. Mr. Giles, and informed him that he had been sent to announce that the terms had been accepted and the men could be expected to return on. August 3. The strike was there-lore settled and official notification would follow in the morning All the parties of the Chinese authorities had been informed tha: these terms could bear no altering or equivocation, Mr. Luk's message was conveyed to the foreign residents of Shameen and Mr. Giles told Mr. Luk that no equivocation would be tolerated. lokets Sti Verrorizing.
On the morning of August 13 it was found that the pickets were still at the gates and workers secking to return in good faith were prevented from so doing. Durivg the day it became abundantly clear from evidences from many sources that the strikers had been deliberately lod to believe that the statement of the police had been conceded by Shameen, This point fed never been and could not he comeeded. It had been made clea that the police had placed themselves in a position where they. could not be accepted in their old Places.
The non-withérawa! of the pickets argues, according to the statement. a gross breach of faith on the part of someone in the chain of strike negotiations. The presence of pickets at a time when the strike had been declared officially to have been actually settled becomes either an act of simple lawlessness to be dealt with by the City police or a subject of grave import according to the section from which the fact emanates.
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