Communists, Unceasing rain, Monday wax the best policeman of" the day, nothing unusual being reported in labour and political circles. From, Pootung reports several days old, which have just come to oficial attention, signify" that "considerable tension there, the situation, 6,600 workers at the B.A.T. resumed work, as did "2,400 st Nanyang Bros.,' 8,000 at "the Japan China Spinning' and Weaving Cow and 1,700 at the Shanghai Dock & Engineering Works, Kadieals in Pootung' broke into the house of a forewoman empl by the Japan-China Cotton Spinning & Weaving Ca. took her outside her own door and shot her dead. She had been, 4 loyal worker for the concern, On Murch 24, 0 foreman in the same establishment, was stood against a wall and shot dead by agitators, armed with rifles, obtain-it is supposed, from Cantonese, He had been taken captive three days store, held, bound and. and foot and without food. A' brother, ¢mplosed at the PACT, tried to buy his freedom, but the would-be ase Faire remained adamant and te. concluded. the cateer of anpthes fused to let him go. The fin
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