Hongkong, July 8.
In the middle of the third week of the "strike" in Hongkong, one can take stock of the situation in the sure knowledge that the worst has already been experienced, and nothing further, apart from a tual rioting, can occur to try the non-Christian population or test the Government's emergency measures.
With controllers of food, labour and transport, and an active censorip, conditions in the Colony resemble a war period; and the fact that the Volunteers have been mobilized for actual military service and the general populace is having to put up with various hardships, tion for the relatives of any. love! employee who loses his or her life while carrying on in employment. The former offer has resulted in some prosecutions, though hardly a single Chinese who is threatened dares turn informer. Already, there have been several payments of the compensation money, a sum of $2,- 000. There is also of late a bigger parading of armed forces, regular, Volunteer, and police. These mea-sores are having a marked effect im restoring confidence where was hitherto lacking. With the infiltration of disillusioned strikers who have escaped the cordon at Canton and have managed to return to this Colony, also, the masses are learning how hollow a1 made them by the polities ents from Kwangtung. and make many sacrifices, assist
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