Hectic Morning Passes with Closing of Native Banks, Suspension of Payments, Traffic Jams Shanghai, Dee. 1
'ONSTERNATION reigned in the downtown business district yester banks and Chinese shops and bu less establishments, specially on Nanking Road, closing their door:
and being held up in many points due to the absence of numerous traffic controlling officers when the strike of Chinese constables attached to the Central and Louza police stations, which started on Friday, gathered momentum and threatened to spread to the Sikh and other branches of the Municipal police fore Prompt action by high police officials and the intervention of Inv. Vu Yah-ching, prominent Chinese inthrophist, and Deputy Police Commissioner T, M, Yao brought the deadlock to a termina~ tion at about noon yesterday when the strikers returned to their respective posts pending the outcome of negotiations which, accord ing to a Council statement, were being satisfactorily conducted with delegates of the striker:
The parleys were confined revision" of the demands of the: strikers whose dissatisfaction with de seen patrolling the y downtown districts the improved—house allowances granted bs. the Comneit to th Friday and the existing view imee" Mared into active resent early yesterday n when sev hundreds of Chinese constables staged it walk-out in earnest, Dame rumour once again proved fying jade and rumours went the Pounds. of Chines circles that the" strike situation was feriorating rapidly constant made with head ters by a reporter of the "North licited. that th orts exerted by high police were br the hourly Teaver i speedy settlement
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