Word: cantons
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...took the journalists (Cox and Oliver). The mob took iron chains. It chained the journalists by the neck. It took them into the streets of Canton and deposited them in a small bamboo cage. For 17 hours the mob hissed, booed, jeered, sneered, pelted, insulted the two animals in the cage...
...Canton, center of anti-British ire, the radical South China Government was captured by the super-radical Whampoa college cadets, who arrested 100 officials, patrolled the city, set the old stone-mud walls to echoing a falsetto communism...
...Shore, between Canton and Shanghai, pirates were reported active. The legend of the "Pirate Queen," a muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...Chamberlain fully realize that the hysterical semi-Bolshevik Government of Southern China, centring at Canton (on the mainland, 75 miles from Hongkong) had banned all British vessels from its waters, that the docks of Hongkong were completely tied up by a sympathetic strike...
...Chamberlain should intervene by force, should, if necessary, occupy "Canton. Otherwise, said the helmeted islanders, where is our British prestige? How shall we be better than a Chinaman...