Broken; Interference with Activity on the Roads After a day marked by disturbances lining at bringing the garbage-collecting and street-cleaning activities of the Department to a standstill, the striking coolies of the Settlement P.W.D, last night accepted mediation by the Police and agreed to return to work at 7 o'clock this morning. The strikers—approximately 2,000 men employed as casual Jabour in the highway and transport branches of the Department—will resume at the various: depots pending consideration of their demands for high-cost-otliving increases and better conditions of employment generally, During the early part of the day the strikers caused considerable trouble, and sabotage in at least one instance, in their effort to prevent their colleagues in the garbage-removal and street-cleaning branches from carrying out their duties. Disturbances were experienced sporadically from an early hour.
Momentary return of clear weather was marked by the immediate resumption of Russian eir activity oVer Finn towns and cities. Helsinki, for the first time in a week, had thre alarms on Monday. The last came ut night between 730 and 9 o'clock! During the first morning alarm Russian bombers were seen flying high in a northerly direction east of the city.
Air activity also increased along the front, according to reports reaching here yesterday, A Finnish communique said perhaps the most severe Red offensive was made on Monday on the center of the Isthmus defences on a five mile front between two lakes. Here, along the banks of the Salmenkaita River, Russian and Finnish soldiers were engaged in bitter fighting all day. The Russians tried again to cross the river at several points, the communique said, but Finnish machine gunners from the opposite side forced them to abandon all further attempts after they had suffered heavy losses.
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