Foreign shipping on the Upper Yangtze has been halted through a strike of Chinese pilots, who are demanding considerably higher pay and allowances, and as a result all foreign ships are now stopping at Ichang. Chinese vessels, however, have made some arrangement with the labour union to which the pilots belong.
'This strike conimeneed on'Febiuary 18, and negotiations have so ar failed to produce any results. 'There sre indications that, if the negotiations. fail, there is a pos sibility of a general labour' strike in the upper river ports.
'A JAPANESE, incensed because he was not allowed to vote at the recent Parliamentary election, endeavoured to set fire to the polling station at Northern. Kuangtung. for his excellent work in founding and guiding
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