Deliberate Attempts to Provoke an Incident: Government Powerless, Through Anxious to Preserve Order A visitor from Canton last Thurs Bannack Rus Our sie rite Wear day gave an interesting description of the state of affairs in the southern' city, He declares it to to be a per-feet of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind, for those who first set out to make discord now are the most anxious to stop it and are finding themselves wel {nigh powerless.
Our informant said he could not help but take a very black view of the whole situation He believes}, that the Nationalist Government honestly is doing its best to maintain order and to prevent foreign outbre and Labour parties are completely' lout of hand and far beyond control. At the end of el yniks? complete yeatment, grain reached a In every conceivable way the mal down to the dogs and cats, had been res of $1,200 ihe wag. openly sold inthe. afreets; the" poor ha 1 contents are endeavouring to pro-devoured: hum dived and tee roads were littered with well-reste Yoke an incident and an attack on Shameen.
Tong sie aspirin and women, whose bodies were not only prosperous rare not oven Tobbed: Theft ceased to serve al The Nationalist papers are lea net to oat sod wns the orly thing worth having and that could not Sog the way and every day they' he bought. because food was the onthe deaths were averaging 700 day. print the most blood-curdling and hose who escaped or s#rvived were mummified in aspect, fleshless and totally untrue news items from!
Hankow. They accepted the first! jRews that one Chinese and on2' foreigner were killed in the troubles' in the river port, but their image:
sino then'has run riot and there. He says that the British controlled missions have won all along the line, for the malcontents were unable to carry on and the choels all have re-opened under} their former controllers. They are only accepting half their quota of boys and girls and are exercising the greatest care in selecting ther everything at the moment is going quite smoothly. The Ameri teans, however, have not had such pleasant settlement aod their schools remain abut To a certain extent corroborative the above story of Canton is a report by Dr. J. L. Maxwell, of the China Medical Association, which to appear in the "China Medical The report follows:—"In view of the problems that] some of our hospitals may have to meet in the near future, we feel that a frank statement of the position and the difficulties that the J. G, Kerr Hospital for the Insane in Canton have had to meet of re. cent months should be made. need hardly remind our readers of 3 position that this hospital!
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efficiently run institution for now they publish accounts of 400} \innocent Chinese slaughtered by the! British. The Government has pro-' hibited all processions and for some days there were none, but last week, the anniversary of the death of Lenin, the mob could not be restrained and a huge procession paraded the streets. The Govern-mal times accommo dates between seven and eight hundred patients and at the moment of writing still contains over 400, though the doctors in charge have made every effort to reduce—the numbers of recent months in view! lof the difficulties which will be here ment managed to preserve sains semblance of order, but all through the city countless street orators held forth unchecked, telling ludicrously, barbaric stories of the foreigners and exhibiting disgraceful pictures in proof.
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