SHANGHAI MORE HOPEFUL.
BUT CANTON IS TOO QUIET. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] £Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) PEKIN, July 12. The situation in Shanghai is more hopeful. There is believed to be a shortage of strike funds, The union approached the Chamber of Commerce and banks for funds to carry on. It is understood now to be ordering the men to resume work for other than British and Japanese with a view to cutting down expenditure. Growing dissension is reported among the strike leaders owing to alleged misappropriation of money. The day was quiet, though intimidation and Kidnapping continue. The tram situation has improved. Canton reports that inflammatory posters are being displayed depicting Indian soldiers killing Chinese, with weeping women and children watching the massacre: also, many official pictures of dead, Including women and children. The city is quiet, but there is reason to believe that further trouble is brewing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2730, 13 July 1925, Page 7
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