From January 1 to 23, the detachment found drivers for the armoured cars lent to the police. This duty was very heavy for the drivers, who worked from twelve to sixteen hours daily. Due to the limited number in the drivers' platoon it was found necessary to take some men from companies to drive other S.V.C. transport. From January 23 to August 5, the detachment supplied two drivers for armoured cars to Bubbling Well Police Station. The detachment also found mine full guards of honour for high naval and military officers calling on the Council. Two officers and 103 men Further labour trouble loomed yesterday when the employees of seven Chinese hire car garages present demands for more pay. Although no strike was threatened, the drivers asked for a reply before Friday. According to reports, the majority of these employees receive $1.80 a day, but have asked this to be increased to $2.
With 1,000 printers back at work, the labour situation appeared to be brighter, a few hundred workers only being on strike, These included 125 employees of the Vienna Knitting Factory in Jansen Road, workers of a small weaving factory in Ferry Road, and the employees, some 150 in number, of the Shanghai Waterworks Fittings Ca., in Yanchow Road. The latter walked out on their jobs on Monday morning and it was reported at first that the men left because they were afraid of Japanese press gangs operating in the district, This could not be confirmed, although the men were still idle yesterday, Chungking Economic Move Explained Chungking, Mar. 4, Questioned regarding the weekend announcement that the Central Bank of China would resume the buying and selling of exchange in Chungking, well-informed Chinese banking circles here last night expressed the opinion that the measure was more political than economic in its implications, The possibility of removal of the Stabilization Fund contre} from Hong-kung to Chungking was said to be unlikely, It is understood that the decision is merely a precautionary move. owing to the possibility of developments which disrupt the exchange markets in Shanghai and Hongkong,—Reuter, Col. Donovan to Stay Week in Britain London, Mar. 4. were employed daily on routine duties, with an additional fifteen to twenty men employed on fatigues until 10 or 11 am., while another 56 men from the previous day's duties having had little sleep, were not available during the morning. Th this must be added another eight N.CO's attached to S.V.C. Headquarters as clerks and in the quartermaster's store and the battalion orderly room, corporals and 22 men in the drivers' platoon at the disposal of headquarters, leaving a small balance available for. training.
"The past year was nearly as bad as the previous one for recruiting.
Although permitted to recruit up io ten over its establishment the detachment was more than 25 under establishment (at one period. This was due to the demand by business firms for the type of man required Colonel William J. Donovan, un-Official observer for President Roosevelt, arrived in London from Lisbon yesterday. He was in London in August and again in December, and during the intervening periods has an Colonel Donovan declined to say anything as to the object of his latest visit to London, or his recent visits to the capitals of Europe, but announced that he did not expect to be here more than a week. He expects to visit several British cities, it is learned.—Reuter. for the Russian detachment, which increased during the year, and the better pay received by men in the Russian Unit of the French Police.
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