On Saturday the Customs were notified that beginning on Sunday all boats in harbour would be searched by revenue. officers sent out by, the] Enforcement Bureau of the Tax Office. The headquarters of this Bureau has just been opened on the Bund, and two former strike picket lenders have been placed in charge.
Although the Government by oficial proclamation called. off the strike and boycott, the Strike Come mittee, in a letter written over a week ago to the local manager of foreign shipping firm. stated that its position is that the strike is still in existence, although it has taken another form, and that it. has never consented to the shipment of goods Hongkong even for transhipment. Since, the Committee has again written to this foreign gentleman stating, that it will now permit goods to 3 sent either to or from Hongkong 80 long as British boats are not patronized, and so long as no British goods are brought into Canton.
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