Influx of Chinese Labour not Fayoured nex Our Oww Comnesronoent Swatow, September 17.
Reports from the Philippines indicate that the authorities there will deny entrance to a large number of Chinese immigrants this season. It is intended to scrutinize carefully the certificates presented by would-be entrants. Unserupulous individuals in the Philippines are said to have furnished intending immigrants with documents to hoodwink the officials. Recently the steamer Susana brought back to Amoy fully 160 immigrants who had been denied Precautions Eleswhere There is also a tendency on the part of the immigration officials in the Straits Settlements to be very strict now in the matter of admit ing immigrants from China. It is urged that present conditions there do not warrant any further influx. There is now considerable unemployment in so far as coolie-labour concerned and there is a general movement on the part of these unemployed coolies toward the towns. The authorities claim that they fall an easy prey to Communists and As far as tin mising is concerned, the Chinese coolies have practically
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