Tuvrspay, July 14.
The strike of the officers of the ion Company, over the vexed question of the reduction of salaries by ten per cent, has. now been in progress for two weeks, can be gathered from of both sides to the The first vessels of the China]
Navigation Ca. to get away since the strike of the officers of the company commenced on June 30, sailed from Shanghai on Saturday: morn-Ing, The Poyang left at daylight] for Yangtze ports; the Shantung eft a little later for coast ports and] Hongkong; and the Tungchow, for northern ports and Tientain, sailed a f@_nine o'clock. There was na} nit of. Any deserts the all Messrs Butterfield & Swire, the legal agents Navigation Ca., stated yesterday that they had nothing new to report apd that the situation generally was exactly the same as when the strike commenced. They had nothing. to say at present as regards the date for dates of any probable—futuré sailings from Shanghai.
'A quest for information to the China Coast Oficers' Guild and. th Marine Engineers' Guild of Chin (who are conducting the ease of the striking officers) was equally unproductive,. They stated that no news had been received from Hong-Kong or the outports during the week-end and that the situation in Shanghai was just as before, Messrs, Butterfield & Swire, the local agents of the China Navigation Company, asked whether there was any developnient of any description, gave the very definite reply, ""None;" while the local secretaries of the China Coast}
Oficers' Guild: and the Marine Engineers' Guild of Ohina gave exactly the same reply to the same question, supplementing it with' the statement that reports had bee! received from all of the outport where everything was'satisfactory, and with the interesting information that "ithe striking officers were keeping in constant touch with the water by a daily visit en bloc to the Hongkew swimming pool."
Neither side seems in a hurry, or indeed to have any inclination whatever, to make a move, and the representatives of neither side were prepared to hazard the vaguest conjecture as to the probable duration of the struggle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.