Vendors in Dispute with the Railway Police Shanghai, Sept. 20.
dispute between' newspaper vendors and the railway police at Nanking Is preventing the delivery English-language. and Chinese newspapers, including the "North-China Daily News." and the "North-China Herald," to readers in. the capital.
The dispute has arisen over the age-old custom of the newspaper vendors to sort Shanghai newspapers fon the railway platform. At 245 pin. fon Sunday when the Shanghai (Chinese) newspapers arrived at the Nanking Central Station by. express the vendors waited on the platform as usual to take delivery of the news-[papers for distribution to subscribers. The railway police, however, acting on. instructions from their superior officers, prevented the vendors from sorting their papers within the railway platform area because, they said, it constituted a public nuisance. The police ordered the men to do this Work outside the railway platform, according to a Nanking news-the railway police authorities to discuss the matter but up to 5pm. that day no settlement had been reached.
'This incident was responsible for the non-delivery of Shanghai newspapers that day' but the vendors have tone a step farther and all news-Papers from Shanghai, both English-language and Chinese, are being held up at the Post Office because the vendors are preventing Nanking branches or agents 2f Shanghai newspapers from taking delivery at the railway station pending a settlement of the dispute.
Nanking readers of the "North-China Daily News" and the "North-(China Herald," wit readily understand the reason for nondelivery in view of the circumstances,
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