The following items relating to the strike appear in the vernacular press and are given as matter of general" interest.
The Hongkong Society for mediation in the seamen's strike is reported by the '"'Shunpao" to have sent delegates to Canton to mediate with the strike leaders but their efforts are said to have proved fruitless and the Society has automatically dissolved.
As ai result of the strike, no coal has been arriving in Camton and the Sunwui Railways have been compelled partly to suspend their service.
The strikers are reported to have written a letter to General Chen Chiung-ming asking him to communicate to the British Consul-General in Canton a message that there was no need for the appointment of arbitrators as negotiations would be entered into by the shipowners and the men themselves.
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