Passengers Forcibly Prevented from Boarding British Ships by Men in Plain Clothes:
Customs Man Engaged in Fracas While Saving Old Lady Faow Our Owx Cosassronoenr Canton, Oct, 29.
The British steamers have resumed] their lay service between Hongkong and Canton, and there is also night steamer which leaves this port for the southern Colony every second day at the hour of 8 p.m., and all of these boats are allowed to tie up to their wharves on the Canton Bund, yet, on the whole, very little cargo is being moved either way. The explanation is not difficult to find: the boycott is officially off, but unofficially it is decidedly "on." In} Se ed feeling of optimism; that affairs Hongkong there ingly a decid {will speedily adjust themselves, and) it is only a matter of a short tims Defore the boats running to Canton will carry full cargoes, and the Canton merchants will carry full stocks of British manufacture as days gone by. [t may well be that this feeling of optimism is not warranted when one discusses Ct nese affairs, one has always to remember that the Chinese mind works somewhat differently from that of the Occidental, and that events! change with kaleidoscopic rapidil and that what is true to-day may} be decidedly untrue to-morrow. But} the fact remains that there is still in Canton a decidedly anti-British} feeling, and a strong to prevent the mere city from buying and selling British manufactures.
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