Shanghai, Mar. 10.
A. short-circuit in the store-room of the Palais Cafe on Avenue Edward VIE at 209 am. yesterday morning fed to the destruction if over $5,000 Worth of whisky and gin. When the "blackout" occurred 16 of,20 customers, the Palais at the time immediately. decamped. leaving behind them some '$000 in unpaid chits for drinks, Lights all over the building were extinguish-Jed for about five hours. until the extensive damage to the wiring could be repaired, but the cabaret was open
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usual at o'clock yesterday even All the main switchboards and fuses of the electric system in the place Jare situated in the storeroom beneath the premises. and when the shortcireluit took place they flamed vp and set fire to the cases of whisky and gin, causing almost total destruction fof the stocks. There was consider-fable confusion in the ballroom when the lights were extinguished. every~ Jone immediately rushing for the Foreigners Held By Strikers Shanghai, Mor. 9.
Two foreigners, Mossis. OG. Merrie and V, A. Borzenko, Inspector fand Engineer of the Public Works Department. were virally "made Prisoners carly yesterday" "morning when some 200 PWD, coolies struck the Dixwell Road depot and. bar= Headed the two men 1m their oes.
The strike flared up at 630 am. when the cooties decided mot to work a token, it was Feported, of sympa~ fiy"tor other workers, who. were Rot ehten work "Tee. Na were entranced by the fact that ne demands conga ayu This. report "was
fad been presented by the strikers the majorly" of wham returned. worl Inter en The dispute ended partly at 730 am, won the coolies removed the ricadge and thus released the for~ tiers, no harm {0 whom had. been aused bythe strikers, The majority them went bade to work, while Sbout 70 remained idle, "The trouble Sorted and ended without inter fence on the part of the SMP.
Chinese reports, however, claimed that the strike ud Been called. because of the low wages being received the coolles. 'One of the papers recently published an interview with tone of the organizers of the PWD. footle' union, in_which the, reponer fiwoted the. man as saying that they, the coolies, were. being. victimized capitalists, since they were paid bout $20 or $30 per menser, whee: fit other Council employees had received substantial increases in the past few months.
"The labour situation, otherwise, wae without a change yesterday, with the workers of the Tung Twa Paint Ca, Hart Road stilton strike. Another dispute: at the Great Eastern Engineer ting Works, also. continued, Both strikes "were sarted. after demands for an Increase in pay had been made and no. favourable" answer had been received by the workers.
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