CHINA.
GENERAL STRIKE CALLED. EXCESSES BY CHINESE. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. CaV.lo Association. PEXIN, March 18. The general labour union at Shanghai has railed a. general, strike, beginning to-morrow and. lasting till tlie Nationalist army enters Shanghai. The Union states that the strike is purely political. Four armed Chinese entered the house of an old man. Mr C. E. Ge-ddes, formerly head of a well-known English firm of Shanghai, looked tile Chinese servants in a cupboard, tied -Mr Geddes’s legs, and liit him on ihe face and head with a revolver till he signed ehccpies totalling 8000 taels. They then released him in an exhausted condition after the cheques were cashed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 March 1927, Page 9
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115CHINA. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 March 1927, Page 9
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