break of war in 1939. There was no special significance attached to the trip and it. did not involve any negotiations proceeding or projected with the United States.
Lord Lothian:
Negotiations are being carried on, but no concrete plans are in evidence for the resumption of work by the strikers, whose demands, it is reported, are too exorbitant. Chiese circles would have it believed that the administration has agreed to at least one of the demands presented, that of increases in pay, but the officials were reticent on the subject and.declined to make any statement.
Unable to make the management of the company accept their. demands, the strikers have in the past two days attempted to intimidate the workers of the bus and tramway companies in the Settlement, A large crowd gathered in Vu Yuen Road.on Tuesday and traffic was disrupted there for some time. The arrival of the Reserve Unit and Japanese soldiers, however, put añ end to the demónstration and the crowd, in- which there were many strikers, quietly dispersed.
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