British Naval Pressure Relaxed From Oux Own Contesrosoext Peking, Sept. 14 The naval action Canton seems to have borne fruit, in that, it is reported that the Canton Guvernnent has made a volte face. It has been announced that Canton officials are making overtures for the immediate abandonment of the boycott, in return for withdrawal of foreign gunboats.
Canton, Sept. 13.
Mr. Eugene Chen, the Canton Minister of' Foreign Affairs, has given an assurance of the cessation of intel ference by strike pickets in the harbour, The pressure recently ex-excised by the British naval patrol has in consequence been temporarily relaxed.—Mowil is Route Hongkong and elsewhere. It is albas a real gift for evangelistic sort of trial trip. The result wit! be watched with keen interest in Hongkong.
Meanwhile the Canton merchants} urge their fellow countrymen to remain quiet and not to create any' unhappy incident with the British. The Joint Union <f Peasants Workers, Merchants, and Students passed a resolution advocating the continuation of economic weapons against Hong. kong. Mr, Sun Fo, Mayor of Canton in' receiving' a delegation protesting against the landing of British sailors at the wharves of the steamboat company, stated he would advise his comrades to hold on to [the boveote policy.
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