The Archive · 1927

Humiliation Day on Canton

Larger Demonstration Than Usual in Canton

Hongkong, May 9.

Reports from Canton state that Humiliatio in commemoration of the submission to China by Japan of the Twenty-One Demands was celebrated on May 7 with the usual processions and demonstra. tions which, however, were larger! than those' of Inst" year: Conspicuous posters were plastered on the walls depleting China bound hand and foot, chained at the waist and loaded with a heavy block, scribed "The Twenty-One Demands.

Another despatch states moderate members of the Mechanics Union are replacing Red workers in the Arsenal and on the railways—

Reuter.

At Hankow Hankow, May 10.

The May 9 Commemoration Day was observed here yesterday and, processions were staged, but not on big scale. The day passed off comparatively quietly.

Of late red flags the place of fags wit in the blue field, while soldiers are changing their tricoloured neckties for red ones.

In the meantime, communists are distributing handbills among for.

ign blue-jackets in an attempt to [volshefy them. These handbills are! written in various languages. A Inrge number of handbills have been, distributed also among Japanese, marines.

'A large tower covered with red cloth, on which the words "Over throw Chiang Kai-shek who is actin. in concert with Imperialistic Jo are written in bold strokes, has been set up on the shore just opposi the Japanese men-of-war—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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