Gen. Chen Chiung-ming's Hopes of an Early Settlement Reports received from south China in connexion with the seamen's strike are even more encouraging than the news contained in an cartier Reuter telegram.
According to a telegram General Chen Chiung-ming, Civil Governor of Kuangtung, has asked H. M. Consul-General in Canton to convey to the Hongkong authorities a message stating that, as the shipowners have agreed to grant the ikers a further increase, he will mediate in the matter and can assure those concerned that if his plans succeed, the strike will be over and the men back at work before the week is ended.
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