Ministry of Communications Employees to give one Day's Pay Monthly.
The Chinese members of the Board are quite satisfied, it is understood, with this arrangement, their main requirement being that a check be Jimposed on Comrade Ivanoff's dic ltatorial management. Having effected his levs of face, the Chinese were quite content to leave the affair in the hands of the Consul-General and the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, News has been received that the Ministry of Communications has issued an order that all employees in the three services under its ways, posts and tele-|. graphs-are to contribute one day's pay monthly to the funds of thegeneral strike.
By this almost incredible wuetion, which is none the less a fact, the Chinese Government definitely an-Jnounces itself as on the side of the anti-foreign movement and. actively assisting it, When news came down from Peking a few days ago that theGovarnment had contributed—$100,000 to the strike funds we discredited the report. But we are assured that it is true and indeed that consklerlable further sums have been sent, without which the strike could not have endured so long.
One would ask what are tha One would ask of what are the cannot be blind to the extremely serious consequences likely to result from its present conduct. Are we to assume that it is deliberately courting those consequences?
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