Canton, Dec. 17.
'The Canton authorities have appointed the following to serve as Feception committee to receive the Hongkong Chinese excursion party' which goes up to Canton on or after next Sunday, "December 20; Mr. Li Long-vu, of the General Chamber of Commerce of Ca. ton; Mr. Kan Kum-shek, of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco' Company; Mr. Choy Chang, of the Sun Company: Mr, Tee Tsolckai, of the Kuangtung Electricity Supply Company; Mr. 'Tse Sum-chuen and Dr. Leong Puiki, Mr, Kan, Mr. Tse and Dr, Leong were members of the Canton merchants' delegation who visited Hongkong last month and which was responsible to bring the Canton and the Hongkong interests to the point of appointing responsible Aclegates to open conversations with a view to ending the strike and Ddoyeott, The Hongkong excursion party to Canton will consist of about 300 members registered through the different district trade guilds and the principal commercial bodies, and it will travel by one of the Chinese owned steamers, Smuggled Goods The Canton strike committee has complained to the Fxecutive Commission of th" Kuomintang Government in Canton that Government, soldiers of persons claiming to be such have been engaging in a con-piracy to smuggle passengers and goods into or out of Canton on Board the British steamers Honam and Fatshan and demand that this shall b> prevented so as not to violate the strike and boycott, gulations, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, chairman. of the Commission, has accordingly instructed the naval authorities in Canton to take proper action in the matter.
Despite rigid picketing in Canton'
arbour, large numbers of former: employees of Hongkong Chinese tea houses and bakeries have been returning to their employment lately. Notwithstanding hard times in Hongkong the year-and trade for the bakeries is as busy as in years past.
Breaking their Chains Of the several persons detained by "the strike committee in Canton on a charge of having violated strike and boycott rules, seven succeeded in making their escape from the detention shed and breaking their! chains in the early morning of December 13, A picket on duty was said to be an accomplice. Among those gaining freedom was fan oil merchant who had recently attempted to import a consignment of oil of British origin worth more than $15,000, but was caught with the goods when entering Canton. He way to have been released upon the payment of a $10,000 fine through the intervention of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, chief of the Kuomintang in Canton; but it appeared to the merchant that would be less expensive to bribe the picket watching him than to satisfy the judgment of the "strike court" in East Garden.
Since the re-establishment strike picketing stations at Shekki and Wanchai, vegetables and other goods cannot' go to Macao and find their way to other ports so easily, says a report from Heungshan. Passengers are still able to depart from Shekki for Macao.
The Naval Academy in Whampoa, discontinued several years ago, probably be re-opened under Soviet Russian superintendent, ne-cording to reports current in the Chinese Press. The matter is now under the consideration of the Canton Red Navy, the commandant of which, Comrade Seminoft, has been mentioned as. the possible new superintendent. 'The "plan—under consideration alls for only a short course of 2 year's training and an expenditure of but' $10,000 a month. 'Under former regulations, the academy offered 'a five-year course of training; including' @. period on board 'a training ship:
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