spondent to the "South mud written. from Canton on August 30; breathes both "in Canton waters and in the Fengter. ate, the more to in the Tight of recent events From present indications it will the foreigners and their Chinese not take more than the firing of al passengers, and the conveying away fingle- shot at a foreign boat. to of their bodt. No trace of the rouse the ire of the British Navy} latter was to be found at the time, to-such a pitch that it will take however. such. action as will ingure that] 'Mr. J. W, Banbury, one of the promiscuous shooting will not lowners of the launch' in question, repeated. The fleet lying off Sha-got his passengers ashore as soon 35 he touched the wharf, Two of the that. this men passengers ran' out to the Keep up, for the strike pickets street and made good their escape. fare now shooting at foreigners Most of the Chinese who were Who they suspect are trying to ai Jabroad, though, were woman with Chinese to go to or from the small children, and two babes in Hongkong steamer, and they are arms, and they could not get out] shoating to kill, so quickly, In the meantime a 'There is no doubt in the mind large band of pickets came pouring! of anyone but that Saturday's off the cargo boats on to the Cus-affair was deliberately planned. A toms' Wharf and advanced levelling! friend of the writer's states that he their rides, and threatening to shoot} was on the wharf when the firing as they came. All escape cut off, egan; that he had entered the both Chinese and foreigners put up Customs' Whart by way of an iron their hands and surrendered, gate at the east end. He has been in. the habit of going to the wharf main doo was practically every morning of 6.30 found to be locked, and a foreiga or 7, and has always used this Customs official who happened t9 gate, which has never, been locked. have heard the shooting said he had Yet when; ten minutes after enter-had it locked, that Chinese were not ing on Saturday, this gentleman Permitted on the dock, and he would sucht to go out through this gate, under no circumstances open the found it. locked. " That door, Tt took considerable nerve Just @ moment before the shooting resist the pickets in this way, for} began. they were constantly—threatening]
Then, too, the crowd of Cus all of the foreigners, and someone toms coolies who are wont to sleep might have lost his head and start.
wharf, and are to be found ed to shoot had not Mr. Banbury} hhudaled up on boxes and_ benches reveiled upon the Customs officials there if one goes to the wharf in' allow everyone to go out through the early morning were missing the main door.
'Mr! Banbury and his Satirdéy morning, The wharf was' boatman were hit numerous times Practically deserted. There were across the back with the butts of only two oF three persons sleeping rifles og they were led through tha there, no one moving about, but streets, Taken to the district there' were six or seven Chinese strikers! headquarters on the Tai waiting forthe motorboat to take then out to the Ping Maloo, they were questioned cly the head picket, and accused of Mr. Banbury's Experience being English spies, and for a Mr. J. W. Banbury reports that time it, looked as if' they would ba shot without even the formality of a a8 his boat' proceeded on its way! from Shameen clear to the Cus-{trial, "Chains were brought out, toms' jetty, he kept a sharp Took: out, and failed to observe a single ist just then some striker recogniz ed Mr. Banbury and told his comrades that he was an American, and picket. His boat turned in to the Hit was presumed that the Russia wharf, and the passengers were man must be an American too. taken abroad. The motor bent then Orders consequently, pushed off, and had just started that the chains should not be use, to make the turn around the line and from this time the foreigners of cargo boats that are tied up to were treated much better, but just the jetty when the occupants saw the same the head picket told Mr. many pickets Ienp to their feet, Banbury that on two occasions his} hata were coming! men had fired on this foreign launch, from three directions, from the outer and the next time they would surely) line of cargo boats in front of the Kill him, Customs' Wharf, from boats in front A Telephone Call of the Strikers! Exami 4 short distance to the from directly across the telephone call was received from Bullets came fast and thick, two the office of the Commissioner of them hitting the foreign' boot, Foreign Affairs, for two American and the only reason no one on Vice Consuls had gone there de mat hoard was struck was that in a ing the release of the foreign prison moment the boat was swang about ners, and the latter were shortly on and alongside of the Custom' their way ina motor ear to the tty again where it was, fairly well released, Foreign Office, where they were protected on two side 'The foreign gentleman who' was!
'The strike pickets oridently think! standing on the wharf started to they can make effective their' Teave just +as the launch started blockade in this manner, by shoot-off. Finding the iron gate locked, ing promiscuously at passing boats. he was on his way towards the, The British naval authorities are main gate of the wharf when hi quaily determined that there shall heard the shots, and knowing what be no further interference with was up hurried out and down th boats on their way to the Hongkong steamer, and armed launches. will street. It was not more than minute before he saw Mr. 8, Lil patrol the harbour in that vicinity} to see that this determination be-rap, one of the owners of the "comes a reality. motor launch, coming down the Bund, The latter reported that On Saturday evening a band of] hho was the first one of the oceupickets, accompanied by three po-abie of the boat to step ashore; lice officers and their commander} it was his object to get to Shameen entered the house of an American right away and seck help. As he residing in the heart of Canton. assed through the examination They were led to the place by the shed on his way out through. the Jmanager of the perfume manufac-main door pickets fired in at him, turing department of a well-known and he heard the crash of zl department store. The Chinese as a bullet smashed a window, and women who had been caught by th2 out of the tail of his eye he saw strikers on the foreign motor boat} someone drop at his aide. made the arrangements for them for Passage in the boat, and when the {British Gunboat Searches Fickets went to the department Once inside Shameen, the two for-store and caught him, he stated that gentlemen went out to the [while he had done so, an American British gunboat Nessus, whose com-living in the city had acted as his mander took the boat down stream, agent and had gone into Shameen and a search was made for the|and made arrangements for the foreign motor boat, Crowds of; motor boat to meet the Chinese pickets were to be seen on every) women at the Custom's Wharf. hand_sitting on the tops of junks and small. craft, and' crowds were assembled on the shore, evidently having just witnessed the capture of
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