Hongkong, June 27.
The Chinese banks are holding a conference on the possibility of reopening on Monday. bers and lents on June 90, after which it is proposed, a formal settlement could be made the following week.
A week's experience of a more or less general strike finds the general situation very calm. The foreign community is largely engaged in vol-untoer occupations of varying descriptions, males as Volunteers, specink-police, bakers and on other essential duties; women combining to run community kitchens, creches and replacing club-boys, while Boy Scouts are very active, replacing telegraph messengers and. doing duties, The stoppage of the trams is hinig the movements of the lower-class Chinese with the result that the streets do not present their usual busy appearance, but Euro-snd wealthy Chinese _move very freely in taxicabs, Hongkong Hotel buses and privat motorcars, chauffeurs of which have not struck.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.