MORE DISORDERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 August 1925, Page 9

MORE DISORDERS.

CHINESE LOOT JUNKS

EJECTED BY BLUEJACKETS

FACTION FIGHTS REPORTED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 18, 12.30 p.m. PEKIN, Aug. 17. Armed Chinese cadets and soldiers at Sliataukolc seized two junks containing ■-ods valued at 1600 dollars and looted them. When the police interfered the Chinese opened fire from machine-guns. The warship Foxglove arrived and landed blue-jackets, who took possession of the junks til! they were taken over by the police.

Disorders have broken out in three villages near Shekki, local foroe s firing on Whampoa cadets, who replied. The situation is tense. —Sydney. Sun Cable. POSTAL EMPLOYEES STRIKE, COTTON OPERATIVES. AGREEMENT NOT ACCEPTED. Received Aug. 18, 12.340 p.m. PEKING, Aug. 17. Nearly two thousand postal employees have struck for various Teasons, including the rate,, of pay. They attacked a detective with stools and chairs. He fired a shot from a revolver, wounding a coolie. The post office is at present guarded hv marine s from the warship Concord. At a meeting of the General Labour Union, the chairman stated that the agreement did not satisfy the labourers. It was decided that the operatives should not resume unless one-third of the strike pay was granted and their wages increased by 10 per cent.—Reuter.

A few days ago it was reported that the Japanese Consul-General and the Chinese Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the mill-owners and strikers, had signed an agreement providing for a resumption of work in the Japanese cotton mills, involving nine companies owning forty factories and employing over 50.000 people.