"Had Hongkong, Shanghai and other treaty sanctuaries their de. serts they would be modelled in gold and forever enshrined in Chinese gratitude." So writes the "South China Morning Post" when giving consideration to the present state of affairs in Hongkong and contrasting them with January last. Six months ago the seamen's strike was in full swing, and Canton did all it could to make things unpleasant for Hongkong. The boot is on the other foot now, for without any external influence conditions are mightily unpleasant in Canton, what with a military coup followed by a naval bombardment and yet other bombardments in prospect. So the Cantonese who can, pack their portmanteaux and make for Hongkong, realizing that there protection is to be had and heeding not at all the fact that they took up a most unfriendly attitude to the Colony only a brief while back. Being British, Hong-
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