Although news of the Hankow shooting reached the river front yesterday afternoon, there were signs of any resulting disturbance. Thousands of striking cotton mill employees returned to work in Yano tszepoo for the morning's work while at the evening shift most of their number were expected to. re-torn.
On the French Bund and in' Poo tung: the same number of B.& S. boats, fifteen, remained idle and Jar dines have eight or ten tied up at the wharves and two in dock. This was later proven to be untrue, Of the A.C. fleet, two are in port, and doth "idle, "The Standard Oil Ca. has no ships in harbour at the moment, The Japanese river boats are stilled tied up at the dock. Shan-shai people have been wondering, why, if the China Merchants' Company is not affected by the local si-nation, there are so many of their boats tied up in the harbour. The trade is with Canton and interna cine fighting prevents cargo from being: prepared.
The mill situation in Yangtszepoo relieved the minds of the directors ery considerably yesterday morn ing for most hands came to work at all mills, with the exception of two British and one Chinese, In, all, 16,000 men, women and children resumed their posts at the morning shifts. All Chinese mills, but the Hung Foong, and all Japanese Mills are at work now, some with redue "Jeed staffs, however.
But in the afternoon the mill sit nation assumed a more serios aspect, many of the day shifts knocking off work in the middle of the day and the night shift failing to appear for work, At least 20,000 workrs, most of whom had resumed yesterday and on Thursday, failed to appear. Some attribute this attitude to the Hankowshooting, but well-informed authorities are inellned to discredit this opinion. The Nagai Wata Kaisha mills in the Pootoo Road district are still all out, At the Rah Hoong mill 3,500 worers, men and women, struck for the first time yesterday, while a sim-liar state of affairs existed at the Kiwa mills—4,550 stayed away. At the Shanghai Cotton Mills 1, 2 and 8 no less than 7,600 left, at the Vu Fong 2200, at the Toyoda mile 2,200 of 4,000 struck, at the Tobac-Products Factories 100 resumed, but quit again, It is certain that 35 boats in all now tied up at their wharves, including six Japanese of the Nis-shen Kisen Kaisha, Loafers paid attention to tram cai on Broadway yesterday morning, and assailed a number of them with volleys of stones. Hongkew police soon put a stop to this, however, There have been several instances }in the past few days of Japanese falling foul of the Chapei police, who arrested them under the pretense that they were spies. They were released, however, on Consular intervention with the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, That the laundry men a now on strike is the latest development in the domestic trials of the Indies.
The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce has we understand, ap-I delegate to collect for the support of the strikers. This action is clearly the work of the extremist wing.
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