More and more of the Chinese seamen on Japanese merchantmen are quitting. At Amoy, Swatow, Hongkong and Canton they have been. deserting their ships. The Seamen's Union is putting the striking seamen in a corps that will, for the duration of the war, help to keep open communications by repairing broken rails, and mending roads that have been torn up.
Individual contributions of $500 apiece will be expected of every Canton lawyer. Their union has voted that their president and vice-president are each to gave $2,000. In Canton there are about 1,000 lawyers. but some are not in active practice, and it is safe to say that many could not raise $500 if it were a matter of life or death.
Police Superintendent Li Chieh-chi has ordered his officers to report as to persons on their, beats who are married to Japanese women. Such persons will be obliged to sign a statement binding themselves not to divulge to their spouses anything subversive to the interests' of China.
Supposing the war spreads to the south, the normal strength of the Canton police department will not be sufficient, arid Superintendent Li is anticipating this by conscripting store fokees who will be out for drilling and instruction from to 8 every morning. If there be four fokees in a shop, one will become a police they have been spending daily by three-tenths, and what they save will be handed over to the Kwangtung Anti-Japanese Salvation Society as part of the war fund it is raising.
Military police and ordinary policemen have the Bund and the Shakee Road strongly guarded after 9 o'clock at night. Three suspicious characters were liken in charge by the M. P.'s last, night near the Ta Ping Road as in their pockets some papers: were found that gave rise to the suspicion they are in the employ of the Japanese Government, Japanese citizens, on the other hand, are being given police protection. Four of them were at the Sin Hwa Theatre on Monday night, and when this was known fully 30 officers were sent to see to it that no rowdies molested these gentlemen. When they came out of the-theatre eight officers came back as far as Shameen with the Following a mass meeting a public demonstration was held at Wuchow on July 28. In their meeting the representatives of the military, students, labour unions, and so on, decided to send off three telegrams. The Central Government will be asked to end its peace negotiations with the Japanese. The message to Kweilin will beg the provincial commanders to take the field at once against the Japanese army. To the 29th Arm: they will send 'a wire pledging thei full support, $1.50 per bottle Obtainable at all Pharmacies agents: WATSON'S
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