GENERAL STRIKE TO-DAY.
POSITION IN SHANGHAI. LABOUR UNION~PREPARING FOR NATIONALISTS. . EXTORTION WITH VIOLENCE. <By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) PEKING, March 18. The General Labour Union, of Shanghai, has called a general strike, beginning to-morrow and lasting till th:; Nationalist army enters Shanghai,. The Union states that the strike is purely political. Four armed Chinese entered the of an old man, Mr C. E. Geddes, formerly head of a well-known English firm in Shanghai, locked the Chinese servants in a cupboard, tied Geddes *s legs and hit him on the face and head with a levolver till he signed cheques totalling eight thousand taels. They released him in an exhausted condition after the cheques had been cashed.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1927, Page 5
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