The Archive · 1926

The Canton Strike

TYRANNY

Prize Court Which Dominates All Trade: Much Grambling But No One Acts Canton (despatched from Hongkong), Apr, 25.

Importers and exporters in Canto jate complaining of the unreasonable delay in the delivery of cargo caused by the "Prize: Court" of the Strike Committee enforcing the "anti-imperialist" boycott. Strike pickets earcking. for British. goods inset on the examination of every case of cargo and, in the case. of suspected goods, retain them for further hear ings. Now more than 100 cases fare' before the "Prize Court, including the one in which the Kwong Sang Hong, of Hongkong, is Hueing accused of having shipped' 98 Hboxes of its toilet and chemical products into Canton by way of Shanghai. According to the Kwong Sang Hong, the shipment referred to was made after permission had been sought and given by the Strike Committee.

'A recent Kuomintang order issued Canton stated that foreign residents within the city would be subject to the house and sanitary taxes like Chinese residents,

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