_When atr. Kung arrived in Shang. hai on September 5, he found that Mr. Kiang had already left for Hangchow and that he would not, return until the 10th. However, on the morning of the ith "instant, when they met, Mr. Kiang showed Mr. Kung a telegram from Peking, instructing them to postpone their trip to Canton on account the disturbances there. Mr. Kiang then returned to the Capital and Mr. Kung is remaining here. If|Confi the trip is postponed only temporarily, the latter will wait in Americans: Money Dit cult to Obtain Canton (despatched from Hongkong), Sept. 11.
Holy Trinity College, St. Hilda's and other Britih-managed schools in Canton have postponed their reopening dates. The Consular thorities in Canton still do not advise the return of foreigners to the city, and many institutions will be short of foreign teachers if they re-open in accordance with announcements. The Canton Christian College has re-department, probably will resume early in October.
Both the strike committee and the Bureau of Public Safety in Canton have acted on the request of Amer-leans in Paak Hok Tung to encourage domestic servants to return to their American employers.
It is understood that the strike committee in Canton has accepted the suggestion to simplify the issue of permits to persons desiring to' leave Canton temporarily on British steamers for Hongkong. At present, persons wishing to spend a week in Hongkong have to attach photographs to application forms and permits and a firm or a well known person in Canton has to guarantee that the applicant will return within a week. This procedure is inconvenient and suggestion has been made that the strike committee should issue permits to those not likely to be returning to Hongkong to obtain employment without the necessity of photo-
By order of the Garrison Commissioner at Canton, all persons found ing arms without a licence will be summarily shot. The reason for measure frequency of med hold-ups in the city recently.
The number of strikers registered Canton, according to the latest sures, is 51,861. Many of them serving as pickets, preventing persons from going to Hongkong and the export of goods to the Colony, far, only $60,000 of the $180,- 000 of "Canton Mun bonds have been disposed of, the subse een larger firms in the city which are not refuse to take up a shar The public does not appear to b very enthusiastic, The income from the riesha monopoly will be reserved security for the payment of nicipal and interest, The scheme of the Kuomintang in Canton to "nationalize" the templet outside the city is being vigorously pursued and all such institutions i Sainam and other inland towns to the west are being taken over by the Bolshevists, On account unsettled condition of Canton, landlords have reduced rents by' about 30 per cent. in order to relieve the many offices and shops which are being hit by luck of trade.
Beginning on Thureday, September 10, the Kuomintang will hold three-day ritual in honour of the. late Liao Chung-hoi, the Bolshevist, Labour leader who was assassinated on August 20 at Canton, Bolshevists belonging to the farming, merchant and labour divisions of' the Kuomintang will pay their respects to the late chief on Thursday aad Friday and the military, polies, officials and students on Saturday.—Reuter's Pasific Service.
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