previous Articles in our issues of Aprit 25 end. Mey 1)
The boycott against British goods! such traffic. The ships are eld in in Canton i controlled by a strike! port for long periods until they can committee, which operates through load and unload. This delay gives pickets, whose work it is to prevent! the picket better opportunities Breaches of the boycott and ts! examine cargo, punish boycottnish those who participate in the' breakers and to negotiate with the Transfer of so-called "imperialist! ships! oticers in the event of in-goods."
Wherever in Kuantong' fractions of the boycott. there is a highway for the transfer] Way D5e4 Government Allow It?
goods, the pickets are present, ready to) examine cargo, to open!
The question T asked was why the packages, to search individuals and Cqnton Government allowed a "state To" make' certain. that no British! within a statec" Why they permitted foods enter Kuangting. Foreigners! the strikers. to effect arrests, 4 well as Chinese are subjected to! examine cargoes and to purus Search, "In stating that foreigners! people, 'The Feply was quite to the entering, and Teaving the Shameen' point: fare subjected to search whatever they entry in packages tal. and that) is a parti movement against Great Britain. The Table to be taken from them, 1 am strikers have taken refuge stating the rule and not the exception, when I was in Canton, of them an
the Shaimeen bridges, 'The strikers aot orating too much tobe' at thing which can make rale is that no goods, not even food., *teetive in their straggle tufts are to be taken to or from] I could not see exactly what the the Shameen. T'understand that the pickets were struggling for oF what same Tile. holds in Swatow. Foed they hoped to accomplish by molest-for the Shameen is bought from ing individual foreigners crossing Hongkong. On the boat on which, the Shameen bridge. carried we travelled "from Hongkong to/ Package, when T erossed to bridge, Canton were baskets of bread for' to see What would happen but the foreign population un. the, I was never molested, I did not Shameen, Even' fish, for which' Personally experience the search and Canton la famous, is imported from, possibly the arrest. The attack on Hongkong. If there are any Chinese' Lieut,"
Colonel, Hayley "Bell servants on the Shameen now, they described in the "North-China Daily' were imported from Hongkon News," recently, is, however, Only six or seven remained after typical of what happens. No effort June 23, is. made by Cantonese officials to]
Tf there is un infraction of the defend the conduct of the pickets: Will not even admit that there boycott, the guilty perean i Before "tne strikers! tribunal for, is anything wrong in that conduct. punishment. He is usually marched through the streets. The police do not interfere with the activities of the pickets, who are a uniformed body. Although most of them have now been disarmed, I saw a small number of them marching through the streets of Canton carrying rifles. Just before arrived, the picket boats saw a Chinese fish bent taking fish to the Hongkong boat. Tae pickets fired. The fishermen jumped Overboard und six were drowned. Picket boats arrest boats carrying goods to Hongkong steamers. "Ths guilty ure taken to the Strikers' tribunal and are punished, The cargo is seized and held. If it ix sold, the strikers receive the money.
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