PEKING STRIKE.
LEGATION SERVANTS LEAVE. BOYCOTT BEING EXTENDED. (BT CABLX —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPIEIOHT.) (REUTBE'S TBLEGBAMS.) PEKING, August Bth. One hundred servants at the British Legation, including some secretaries, have struck. Students are picketing the Legation gates to prevent servants' ingress, and are intimidating the families of those living inside the Legation. They are also paying the strikers a month's wages. The students' movement for tho boycotting of all British missionary schools and'colleges is making considerable headway. It has now been decided to attempt to induce all Chinese in foreign employ in Peking to join the strike.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 9
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