Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some quarters the opinion was expressed that Communists were making a concerted drive against British shipping throughout the world, since this strike followed on the manifesto of the Canton Government against British shipping (See China...
...radical government in Southern China with headquarters at Canton has for a long time taken things into its own hands, but last week it went a bit too far according to British and Japanese notions. It issued a manifesto denying British and Japanese ships the use of certain ports including Canton; it allowed ships of other nations to visit those ports provided they did not call at Hongkong (British enclave); it provided for inspection of foreign vessels visiting ports by pickets of the Anti-Imperialist Union...
...course this action is contrary to the terms of British treaties with China. It is very serious for Hongkong which is reported to be losing $1,000,000 a day by the boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...
...first copy of TIME that I received, on arrival at Seattle, contained the statement (July 6, Page 11, col. 1) that the shooting at Shameen, Canton, had been done by "angry students and workmen." As I had left Canton the Saturday before the shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting...
...your early subscribers, and an enthusiastic "Timer." It was a great hardship to me to miss all the issues during the month it took me to come from Canton...