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...Canton. An angry mob of workmen and students fired on the foreign quarter, Shameen. The fire was immediately returned and several casualties on both sides were reported. After a day's respite the Chinese again attacked and were again driven off. Foreigners erected emergency fortifications, opposite which the Chinese mobilized...
...Canton. Victorious Kuo Mintang (Bolshevik) troops committed further atrocities on the defeated Yünnanese, many of them being butchered. As soon as they were firmly established in the city, they turned their activities against the foreigners. Strikes were declared and all foreign goods were boycotted. U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins urged all foreign women and children to leave the city. Many began to leave...
Events. Riots, strikes, war and general unrest were reported, last week, from Peking in the North to Canton in the South, an approximate distance of 1,650 miles. Chief events...
...Canton, about 500 miles southwest from Foochow in the extreme southerly Province of Kwangtung. The war which was declared between the Kuo Mintang and Yimnanese factions (TIME, June 15) ended in a speedy victory for the radical Kuo Mintang (the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's party). Thereafter followed bloody executions of Yiinnanese soldiers who had surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that...
June 18. Members and sons will leave Copley Square, Boston, at 3 o'clock, for an outing and dinner at the Hoosic Whisick Club, Canton...