Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of his education over, he repaired, still at a tender age, to Switzerland where, to earn his living and pay his way through Lausanne University, he became a manual laborer. Subsequently, his revolutionary activities resulted in his being evicted from one Swiss canton after another; and, when he tried his fortune at journalism in Austria, he rapidly met a like fate at the hands of Emperor Franz Josef's soldiers...
Meantime, anti-foreign feeling continued to run high in most of the eastern Provinces. Strikers remained out and a bloody clash took place between two Chinese factions at Canton. In the same place terrorists frightened the sexton of the foreign cemetery to flight by threatening to dig up the dead. In divers places stories of shots fired at foreign transports were reported and lost nothing in being recounted. Despite many difficulties, indications were that Chinese unrest was slowly ebbing...
...general, the situation in China arising out of the anti-foreign riots (TIME, June 15 et seq.) neither improved nor grew worse. A state of high tension existed at Peking, Shanghai and Canton and the anti-foreign flame was fanned to remoter parts of the seaboard Provinces...
...Government, entirely sympathetic to Bolshevism, if not in its favor, was formed in Canton. Almost its first act was to demand of Britain and France the recession of Shameen, the foreign concession; an apology for the recent shortcomings; compensation to the families of the killed...
Colonies for lepers are many. In India alone there are 8,850 lepers and 92 asylums. Just inside the East gate of Canton live 1,400 grey men; more lodge at Hokchiang, at Purulia; there is a famed colony at Molokai, Hawaii; an even more elaborate one on the island of Culion, Philippines, established by the U. S. at great expense in 1906; where the lepers have their own stores, theatres and a special kind of currency...