Hongkong, Sept. 7.
A general strike has been declared at Kongmoon. The Customs House has closed down and the Customs launch has fled to Macao for safety. The str. Kwanglee and gunboat Moorhen are now if not indescribable, are quite unprintable here.
At about 10 am. the Chinese prisoners, all of whom were Hongkong strikers serving sentences for attempts to return to this Colony, were given a very generous quantity Chinese food; and at about 10.90 a man who appeared to be 'a gaoler brought us a tin can tepid water and two bowls. This was followed in about half an hour by four boiled eggs and some dirty'
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