Shanghai, Aug, 21.
Nanking's manual labourers thrown cout of employment as a result of the hostilities will be given work snd assistance by the municipal authorities under a plan drawn up by Mr, Chao Wel-shu, chief of the industrial section of the Nanking city government, it was reported yesterday.
Labourers to be benefitted will include carpenters, rattan article makers, bamboo article makers, blacksmiths, brasssmiths, handicrafts-men, cotton goods weavers and silk goods weavers Those. able to operate small fattenes and employ several manual labourers will be provided with the necessary raw materials provided they will pay. the authorities in instalments, Labourers unable to! operate factories will be given work at plants opened by the authorities.
Tt Is estimated that unemployed manual workers in Nanking number: at present more than 3,000 with an additional, 7,000 persons dependent upon them for financial support Tatung Coal Mines Phe Shanghai Tug & Lighter Ca. have™ sent their tug Saucy, with salvage superintendent. on Soar, (0 ie'seene but. no attempt wil" be made to refoot the Victoria uni ihe Japanese soldiers Tenve the vessel, Hwan stated.
HM. 8, Scarab Standing-by Aug. 1.
HIS. Scarab will eontinie to standsby_unill the ship Is release, td will report on all further develop. ments, It. is expected that the folders, who afe believed to be twenty in number, will be ordered their own authorities to abandon vessel, as itis believed that they were not acting tinder orders, Aug, 19.
It was understood last night that the party of Japanese soldiers which seized the Shanghai Tug Lighter Co's tug 8.7. Victoria after had run aground during the recent typhoon on Cooper Bank, near Nantung, a northern Yangtze port, vacated the vessel: yesterday.
This followed the action of the British naval authorities who had made representations to the Japan
Scarab which was standing by the following messages. from HIM tug. Later a Japanese destroyer went fo, the scone to straighten matters out, The same company's tug Saucy which, was despatched jlo Cooper Bank to refloat the Victoria will now [proceed with the work, it is expected.
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