The operators at the main office of the Imperial Chinese telegraph office, on the Band, went on strike yesterday afternoon about five o'clock, Their ostensible reason was that their claim that three months wages should be paid in advance was not immediately granted, but it is expected that they had the ulterior motive, being eympath. mers with the revelationists, of disable ing the office which, lying inside the settlement, could be made ineffective in any other way than through strike of the operators. The authorities held out. They maintained that the payment in advance was an cowarranted demand. After considerable discasion among the men they decided to retarn to work for the present. All communication with Pekiog is out off and aside from Necking aod Wuhu, which have not as yet been taken by the insurgents, the office in Shanghai is working with offices which have been "taken over All offices now held by the insurgents accept only commercial and other messages which have no connexion with the Imperisl Goverment service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.