Tokio, Nov. 20.
The directors and shareholders of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha are holding a general meeting to-day, when the situation created by the attitude of the employees in the Company's offices at home and abroad will be fully aired.
Charges in the Company's regulations, which, it' is.wlleged, will handicap the land employees to the advantage of the marine employees, have tended to accent tuate the relations between these two sections of employees which have always been antagonistic and resulted in a reported threat, from the land employees to resign en bloc unless the grievances are remedied. In spite of the belief of officials of the Company that the question will be easily settled, the developments are being watched with great interest, not only by the employees,. but iby a number of local shippers, who will be largely. affected should the trouble take a more serious turn.—Reuter.
Poppy Cultivation in Hupeh Peking, Nov. 26.
According to report one of the foreign Legations has drawn the attention of the Government -to the cultivation of poppy in Hupeh, and acting thereon the Government has issued instructions to the provincial authorities to make inquiries thereament.—Reuter. 4
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