The Strike Committee has asked! for and has been given the aid of the Kuomintang Navy in capturing kerosene oil, flour, and cotton yarns in transit between Hongkong and other South China ports. During the last few days Kuomintang gunboats have captured a number of launches and junks around Kwong-hol, Shekki, and Chinshan, for the Purpose of Seizing these goods while Little comment has been made bby the vernacular press in connexion with the closing of Canton and Whampoa by the Commissioner Customs in Canton, Some of the organizations, however, express their indignation and say that this is more or less al declaration of war by the British Government, especially since utterances of warning against—the Canton Government have been pronounced by the British Minister in Peking and the Governor of Hong. kong. Naturally, the Students' Union and the Labour Union, as well as the Kuomintang, are among] this class. They will, in the course of a day or two, issue a manifesto on their attitude and denounce Great, Britain and her "imperialism."
'The Kuomintang have issued the following appeal to the British' people:
"Since the Shanghai and Canton tragedies, the Chinese people have been placed: in a position of extreme Hatred and ridicule by certain people:
Due to, your assistance, the imperialists refrained from posing: upon China too. much, Your: Kovernment, however, from beginning, vestigation of the called Judicial Inquiry to gather "all the facts" relating to the incidents. Up to the present, a settlement is still as far away as ever. Now, worst of all, according to a-recent protest from your Minister, the British Parliament fas passed a resolution declaring war on China. This is in direct contravention of the treaties and international relations, and we hope that you English people will stand by us in this fight for right and Justice, and that you will awaken your government from the imperial-{istic dream of Prussianism, which caused the fall of Germany."
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