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This undertaking was given by the Councils ins the first week of the strike, when its early termination was expected. As the negotiations dragged on and agree- ment after agreement, was wrecked, my French colleague and I did not fail to point out that the result would be very different from what it might have been had the strike ended when the undertaking was first given. Chinese however always waved this point aside an of no importance and asserted that a fund would be raised to compensate those employees who were not paid in full. Moreover the undertaking given by the Council did not guarantee either reinstatement or payment of wages, order therefore to avoid raising a fresh controversy,

this clause was allowed to stand.

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Colonel Crosne did what he could to induce acceptance of the terms of the undertaking, although considerable doubt was felt as to the Chinese carrying out their share of the bargain. Inpoint of fact they have not done so. For my om part, I took into consi- deration that the Shameen employees as a whole, the exceptions probably smounting to no more than a fraction of one per cent, had obviously been compelled to leave their work under threats of violence to themselves and their families, and had done their best on departing to leave everything in the best possible order, and that

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