"Measures Repealed Canton, Apr. 4, The suspension of usifess by the native bankers of Canton on gunboats "'lying the. Chinese arbour one now sce very fee colours. The larger' boats at Canton are all foreig At present the U. 8S. S. Helena, the U.°S. destroyer No. 217, HIS. Foxglove, the. reach "gunboat Craonne and a Japanese destroyer stationed at Canton. The British river gunboats, including the Cicala, Moorhen, "Tarantal 8 'Moth and' Robin, are patrolling 'March 31 has led to the final re- the the Wear River 1 protect British peal by. the Administration of the offending new taxes—the requirement for' bankers to use nies a "dome British. Shippin ping.
stamped paper for their business protection Ti Kusogtung waters, arr er their own transactions in addition to the in addition to the aid they may ordinary Forenue emms expect from the Hongkong Gov-negotiable papers, "and the levy ernment, The Hongkong -and of-1} per cent, extra duty on the South China Launch Company, export, of subsidiary coins from which has many vessels to pro. Cantor: 'The latter tax had been tect, has chartered an armed mide more intolerable by the rul-oat, the Tha de Dom Joard, ing of Dr, Sun Yat-sen that, ex-with' Indian watchmen on board port included carrying coins from under European officers, to follow the City of Canton to the coun-up their vessels. try, districts of the same province, o.oPERATION AGAINST PIRATES, This would practically have cut off business transactions between
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