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...together with all foreign settlements and concessions in the different treaty ports, should be returned to China; all extraterritorial courts abolished; all indemnities which China is still forced to pay waived; the customs and the postal administrations handed over to Chinese management; foreign troops and gunboats withdrawn at once; Hongkong, Kowloon, Liaotung and Formosa returned to China; Burma, Annam and Korea allowed to become independent...
...HONGKONG" "SUN YAT-SEN ALIVE...
Kwongtak in Hongkong waters. Chinese customs officials in fast cruisers chased the pirates, sank their prize, captured them...
...British plan to return on June 26. Lyons, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Karachai is their first lap. They will then go to Calcutta, across Burma to Hongkong and Tokyo, then across the Pacific to Vancouver, through Canada to Newfoundland, and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon, via the Azores, Paris, London. If all goes according to schedule, the two expeditions will cross each other's paths in Japan...
About three hours out from Hongkong the British steamer Hydrangea was attacked by pirates, who, in the guise of passengers, overpowered the Indian guards, locked up the officers, ransacked the ship, robbed the passengers, grounded the steamer in Bias Bay, escaped to shore...