Reports just. to hand from Chinotso, the Gentre of the coal amining district in the province, where the Peking Syndicate and the Fu. Chung Corporation are located, show the effects of this agitation of the students. A strike of miners, and house servants, together with office staff, and an embargo on food for the foreign residents in the place has forced the British community to This is very! sert and much needed source of income from the Honan administra tigi, "It will be remembered that by the'terms of the concession to the British firm, both the Peking Govethment ang the local province share the profits of the mining operations. 'The recent wars in the north ud in the province itself have out deeply into "the earnings for the year. This strike will not only cause a loss of present revenue, but may result' in injury to the mines that will take: a long tithe to repair. The significance: of the: strike, howe ever; is that the authorities either cattmot-donttot the student éetivities, or are partyt0.thete activities!
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