While sympathy was voiced with the owners' appeal, the meeting did not reach any definite decision, but referred the matter to the Cham= bee's executive committee for further discussion, with the instruction that the Chamber's assistance was for the protection of both the owners' interests and the pullers' welfare, Ten other proposals were discussed and adopted by the meeting. these including one to the effect that the Shanghai City Government should be asked to establish a Liquidation Bureau to take charge of affairs of business concerns that had closed Jdown. This was also adopted, Major excitement ensued on the Bund foreshore on Friday about 3 bin. when the President Pierce, from San' Francisco, in proceeding to the Dollar Wharf, fouled several large sampans carrying paper. Ten or twelve huge rolls of taper were thrown into the Whan poo, in which strong flood tide was running.
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