a large scale, the number of un-With the zenowal of warfare on employed Chinese. in Shanghai is daily mounting. It is estimated by. the Chinese authorities that nearly jilion of their countrymen have thrown, out of employment since the outbreak of, hostilities on January 28, Although the fighting is now confined to the area on the northern side of the Settlement, the Chinese authorities point out. that the merchants in the Settlement are likewise suffering due to the landing cof many shells in the Settlement fand the business paralysis caused by' the hostilities.
In Hongkew District alone, claimed by the Chinese authorities that more than 500,000 persons in all walks of have either! evacuated or have suspended their' business owing to the feeling of gen-oval unrest among the public. Thousands of shop. proprietors in other districts of the. Settlement have been compelled. to close down their shops and this has thrown, their employees out of jobs at least temporarily.
suffered the greatest in the "war,"
The Chapel Chinese, Are more than 200,000 in number. All of them have been rendered homeless asa result of the bom-
Tu. addition to the above, approximately 10,000 labourers, who More employed by several large Chinese Industral plants. in Woosung Kiangwan, Including. the Wing Gri Cotton hill, the Raifway" Work hop, the Kiangwan Factory for the Unetployed, the San Yue Tovel Factory, ete, were all, thrown gut thole jobs "when the fighting Spread to theca' places," Prior BRevoutbreake of hostilities, a. number of Japanese cotton mills in the Bettlement closed down due to the gid. enforcement. of the anti= Sapanese boycott by the Chinese. The closure of these mills was also
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