*|Plant at Tientsin Tientsin, Mar. 25. A short-lived strike broke out in the French Concession power station here yesterday.
After four hours of negotiations. during which some sectors in the city were deprived of electricity, the strike was settled at 8 p.m.
The workers asked for higher wages, flour allowances and long service gratuities, but finally accepted an all-round' salarly increase of twenty dollars a month for each man.—Havas Telemondial. cattle Smallpox Epidemic Ends "NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS"
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