Swatow Strike Pickets Armin; Mr. Tong Asked to Whitewash the Southern Reds Canton (despatched from Hongkong), Jan. 31.
Canton, following the city of Neaking, is anxious to be represent.
the coming 150th Independence Anniversary Exposition of the United States to be held in Philadelphia next July, and a move. position. A committee, it 0d, will be appointed soon in Canton to look into the question, Canton, it may be recalled, was represented in the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, Rifles for Swatow The Strike Committee in Swatow is applying to the Kuomintang vernment authorities for the delivery of 95 rifles for its headquarters and seven other stations in order to arm an additional company of strike pickets.
The Strike Committee and the Kuomintang Government are fay-curing the requests from Hongkong and Canton merchants to relax the ¢nforcement of the boycott so that Foliday visits between these two ports may be facilitated for 10 or days during the Chinese New Year. Formal notices from Canton authorities are awaited.
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