Serious Conflict with Soldiers and Police: Not Wages but Politics Peking, Sept. 14.
A serious strike of the employees of the Canton-Hankow Railway between Wuchang and Changsha commenced on Friday last and has not yet been settled. Demonstrations by the strikers at -Wuchang and Yochow resulted in clashes with the military and gendarmerie, wherein six persons were killed and ten -apparently drowned at Wuchang, while 40 were seriously injured at Yochow. A complication has arisen in the form: of a sympathy strike on the southern half of the Pehan Railway, where the employees demand the same concessions as were gained by their fellow-workmen on the Northern section in their recent strike.
While the strikers are said to have quit work over a question of pay, it is believed that political agitation is in reality responsible for the trouble—Reuter.
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