Some of the strikers, according to my information, are suffering from hunger and lack of proper accommodation. They are dis-istled and unhappy and would to return to Hongkong if they h chance. They wer iixed many things, they received practically nothi since the beginning of the strike.
Not a day passes without some ion pa: through the Day and night they march about with bands to show their capertance and to blow their trumpet and beat their own 'The British and Americans are subjected to the main line of ate tack, but Russians, Germans and Japanese, who have moved from 'Shameen' to Canton City, are still looked upon as friends, most of these nationalities predominating in all lines of business. Japanese and Norwegian boats were seen in large numbers. British and American scale. igners, including the interests are on a small
British, can now' walk about the streets in safety, there is no apparent danger of their being molested, or at least there have been but few eaces in which the strikers have attempted lately to molest westerners. As foodstuffs for foreigners come mostly from Hongkong, it is not surprising that persons crossing the bridge from Shamezn to Canton are searched by the pickets. Several cases hav been reported in which foreigners, women included, bringing foodstuffs seress, have been searched and had their purchases taken away from them and thrown into the canal.
Shameea Barred I was not allowed on to Shameen.
The -pickets on one side and the
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