Racketeers Cause Complaints Mr, Chen Kung-po To Head by Shippers to S.M.C.
Chinese Delegation Racketeering along. the Shanghai waterfront has again come into [prominence with the official complaint of certain foreign shipping interests to the Shanghai Municipal Council These interests aisart that since the Jcommencement of the local hostilities the gangster element in Shanghai has Jawept Its sphere of influence to- the tone remaining open gateway to the elty—the SMC. pontoons along the Bund. Here by duress they have gained a monopoly on the wharf Jcoolie market and are charging exorbit ant "rates "for" working " cargo. Danger of violence has frightened away other coolie labour and there also the threat to the cargo which Jat times must be considered.
'The only new aspect of the situa~ ton is that caused by the war. With all' the wharves north of Soochow Creek closed to trade, the SMC. pontoons have come in for an unusually large amount of use, Having! Ino regularly employed stall of coolies under a strong No. 1, as is the case with most of the old privately owned wharves, the SALE," wharves have fatracted the loafer gang clement {from north of the creek.
Otherwise, waterfront racketeering. harks back beyond the days of the [Grand Canal and is a vice with which nearly every port 6. the world must Nanking, Nov. 1.
A. goodwill mission to the govern ments of-Europe Is to be made by Mr, Chen Kung-po, former Minister of Industry and at present Director, of the Mass Training Department of the Central Kuomintang; who. has been appointed Ambassador' "Ex-Waordinary. He will visit Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other European countries, The object of the mission Is to strengthen the cordial relations Eetween China and these countries and to convey, on behalf of the Chinese people, the appreciation of the friendship and sympathy shown to China in her present hour of storm and stress—Router,
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