Hankow, Feb. 8.
Half of the railway strikers returned to work this morning. The usual passenger service is running.
A strike leader was decapitated last night on the station platform. Shih Yang, a prominent agitator, has been arrested and it is understood that he will be executed.
Employees' of the Yangtze Engineering Works struck in sympathy with the railway strikers at noon to-day, and the workmen of the Hanyang Iron Works are expected to be out to-morrow. Employees of the Canton-Hankow Railway have also gone on strike.—Reuter.
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