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HONGKONG JOURNALISTS.
tion as a Lord mayor on November possibilities of escape. We con 9th but with a little less dignity. Jectured the possibilities of the Holding rifles with fixed bayonets Shameen authorities hoarding of horizontally the Cadets forced back our arrest and decided that at least. maddened crowd which they must know something, was
Scene at Tung Yirt. Ushered in we found ourselves still surrounded by uneducated looking people of the copile class and obviously no official was there, the
IMPRISONED BY CANTON STRIKERS. A dozen or a score of them ap- sestleulated in, threatening manner wrong by Friday morning. And so
CHAINED IN CELL FOR SEVENTEEN HOURS.
Two British journalists from Hongkong--Mr. J. S. Cox, of the Hongkong Daily Press and Mr. F. Oliver, of the South China Morn ing Post--who went up to Canton by the .. Honum on Thursday,' had an intensely unpleasant experience whilst in the city. They were followed through the streets by a huge crowd of Chinese strikers and later imprisoned for seventeen hours in a cell, shackled in chains, only being released after intervention by the British con sular authorities. The story of their experiences is to-day told in the SM. Post by Mr. Olivor as follows:
sible wo lay awaiting fate... peared to have equal authority. as, like condemned murderers, we ng patiently and cheerfully na pos- Only those who have spent a few There was much arguing and were marched to our prison.
Wo passed in. Inside the build-. writing of documents. We gavo up hope of that pass and merely ing had been built three bambon hours in chains can guess at the waited patiently for developments, cages, each of which was full of discomfort. We constautly turned Chinese prisoners. We were push- over and the clanking of chaine we' Beselged in a Matshed. ed into the middle one in which made called forth shrieks of Outside the building the crowd were fourteen prisoners so that we laughter from those outside while surged, calling for something that made altogether sixteen people in a faces, peeping through a think in boded only ill for us. Ugly faces space precisely ten feet by fifteen: the wall called out "Englishmen" appeared at crevices all round the One electric light glimmered in a and followed it with a few choice
we heard corner. The floor was covered with oaths of Oriental manufacture."
We had an admirable joke be. place and I suppose.
interest in whatever befell us, 'cleared for us. more oaths and flowery epithets rattan mats and we wearily sank
Qur sense of duty in getting than ever before in our lives. It on the few square feet of space tween us to continually renew our
word. The
Our Fellow Prisoners. understood not a
cables back to our respective papers was well for our tempers that we
It whole of the time were in There was a hopelessness about, was the cause of our arrest. captivity we had constantly to the situation too deep for words was for that we entered what has The ship arrived at 3.45 and, from and where the office was. He within the next quarter of an hour promised to take us and said that, guard ourselves by holding in but we brightened considerably for months been a forbidden city. Justifiable anger-as one indignity, when one prisoner addressed us in in that cable we bad said, "Honam we were landed on Shameen by n having done so, we could get a
English. The guards ordered no arrived three thirty unincident." was heaped upon another] Customa launch. We spent two motor boat back to Shameen with- The writing of documente ceased talking but lying back I could The last word is the universally hours there, making enquiries as to out difficulty.
escorted from one converse with him in quiet tones. known prossman's express for the and we were
In another. Crowd Turns Nasty.
building to cabling facilities, and means of
the He said he and his fellow prisoners fact that the affair being reported reaching Canton and returning to He requested us to step into an shadows of the Tang Yin garden were good men; that they had been happened without untoward in- Shameen. The difficulties were ex-adjacent salt fish shop and there a odd figures dodged in and out in caught atShumchun after waiking cident. plained to us bát our obvious duty number of Chinese workers wear-, endeavours to get near us but we appeared to be to get a cable off
In Canton.
"
We
A Surprise. The hotter hours of the day
from Canton" and had been near Interest never failed to arouse and we were told pretty authorta-ng badges of some "description, were ushered into the other build cerated in that filthy stench- itself when one called aeroas to the tively that in daylight we would not appeared, most of them armed with ing untouched. There a dozen of ridden prison. for more than a other "Honam arzived unincident." ancient carbines. Things began to our captors with half a dozen month. He said he himself used to We were getting incident enough.. be molested. A motor boat landed look serious particularly as a huge words of English endeavoured to work for Shewan Tomes and for us at 6:30 p.m. at Customs wharf; crowd outside clamoured for admis- question us. Asked who and what, Dodwell's but that was some time. promising to return at 7.30.
sion and had to be threatened with we were and how and why we ago. In the cell with us were two the ancient armoury but one does visited Canton we explained and of the painters who were kidnapped dragged painfully on and we were. not question authority when it is at this juncture I did a foolish while painting the bridge at Shum just commending ourselves to an-
wrote thing. On the Bund a dozen rickshaws-weil-armede-
my name and chan some weeks ago.
other night in our filthy cell when we had n series of surprises clamoured to be hired and we were
It was thought we were armed address in Chinese characters, i
Kill the Foreigners,
First an official appeared and generally received in friendly and one filthy criminal-lpoking about all I know of the Chinese
After that no one All this time the crowd clustered
returned to me the dollar I had Tashion. We rode down the Bund individua, began to run over my language. which had every appearance of, person. A sharp push sent him would believe I couldn't speak it round the prison and our fellow given him for food earlier in the normal business.
flying and for a second or so it look and this may have led to some of prisoner was able to translate their day. It seemed queer and sus-
I let the rough treatment we received. clamouring. Their one We reached the Chinese Y.M.C.A.ed as if I asked for trouble.
gry was picious. Then at 6.16 p.m. three "kill the foreigners" to which the persons entered the cell and with- and went in to ask for information, the only semi-decent looking per-* The Rabble's Demands.
reinforced guard replied "You can out a word our chains were ro- An English speaking Chinese wrote son there see I was unarmed and
We in Chinese the address of the cable and this fact was communicated
We were "charge" against us, we being told not while we are here." This noise moved and taken office. Armed with this we drove
looked at each other and grinned. to the crowd outside.
were beginning to back to the Post Office and there in the hands of the strikers al- we were up there as spies, to find
of freedom of hired a coolie to guide us down the though we were then unaware. out what we could." "We were told. There is comradeship between Just as we
we should be taken to the Police prisoners whether innocent. or enjoy the sense Station and we protested in vain guilty and our fellows at once came movement three apparently im that, we were good men and an-forward with mats to lie on and portant personage entered. One empty tins on which to place our was an officer and the one with heads. There was a diversion most authority a. short, thin when our captors came in and civilian who spoke excellent Eng- demanded all our money, Between lish. He asked us who we were, fully counted and we were made to us to follow him. Being suspi- se had $200 and this was care- where we were from and requested write on papers our names and the cious we declined until we knew amount in our possession. To our, where we were going.
narrow streets of Sai-kwon. There of it. we were treated to friendly glances and were directed by a well-to-do Chinese who spoke English. Our cables were handed in and we were promised that they would go with out fail. Our coolis conducted us back the way we had gone and we got back to Customs Wharf at 3.15.
די י
The Bund Procession. At 10 pm. After an uncomfort- able hour in the fish shop, we were put into rickshaws and told we were going to Tung Yin to get passports, a thing we believed to be true.
There was much talk
xious to do no harm..
of a
But our cuptors' aims were de- feated, on the point by the still clamouring crowd outside. Ask- ing when we were going we were told it was impossible for some time because the crowd wanted to Ail the time we had been treated As the name implied Tung Yin harm us. So there we sat on al well and no possibility of trouble is at the easternmost part of entered our heads at all. The the city and that ride along the bed, while a dozen or so of the promised motor boat was not there Bund, in brilliant, moonlight will famous or infamous Whampoa which, as we were 45 minutes late. be
not unsily forgotten, Cadets filed in and surrounded"us
with fixed bayonets. was not to the wondered at. We Anything more like a ride to the imagined the owner thought we had gullotine in the tumbrils would Efforts to Break In gol a boat back to the s.s. Honam. At the English Bridge. Outside on the Bund we tried to get a sumpan but failed, all the hoat people being afraid to take us either to the sis. Honam or to the Shameen.
The question of returning then began to assume a serions aspect, We walked along Sha Kl to the English bridge and hailed the other ade. We explained, through the darkness, our position and asked to
one
4
"J
was night-long.
away.
He de-.
tion. It would have been hard to utter surprise the money was clined to say but promised protec
Uncertain Fate.
find a worse place in which to hanhed bach to us.
The uncertainly of our fate was stay than Tung Yin and so we such that we determined not to went. The Cadets presented arms sleep but as time wore on I found I in a fashion which showed our be hard to imagine. Two untern The mob made many efforts to could not resist and abandoned escort was of some importance, bearers proceeded us demanding break in but were repulsed. On myself to a few hours reat. Day- free paysage and armed men ac- companied
corner.
"
At Cadet Headquarters.
TEL
The
never more welcome two occasions a whistle demanded light was
Outside was a ear, and to side. us on either
silence while someone addressed although it only come through a About our little cavalcade surged the mob in the fashion of Antons. hole in the top of the wall about breathe clean air was an indes-
cribable delight. A short tremendous multitude of Chin- These orations had an effect for a a square foot in size. ese, a mob which gathered hundreds time but the clamouring grew Ve had had no food since tiffin and we arrived at a place which more to itself at every street louder and it was evident they the previous day and at 10 a.m. on was evidently the yamen of some-
were demanding our blood:
Friday when the prisoner'a meal one of standing. We were taken Gesticulating, brandishing sticks It was at this point that the came in we found we could not to a small room plainly furnished, and shouting they made constant chains made their apperance. touch it. We asked for water and and drinks were served. attempts to surround us and their About ten feet long, heavy, and at 10.30 a saucepan. full with two change was tremendous. In pria- intentions were only too obvious, with a huge lock of Chinese pat- basins to drink from appeared. It on we had been refused water to be allowed to risk the barbed wire
The Strike Guard.
tern those were sumped about was then about fourteen hours wash, but here there were water- simply went entanglements and climb along!
our necke almost as tight as one since we were captured. Later in and towels and we. This we were told was impossibic
Our armed guards worked
wears a collar but, be it belleved,morning our jailors become worried ahead with them..
The man who had rescued s and a voice with a Naval flavour strenously and effectively, to keep with much less comfort,
at our refusing food and asked what! informed us of the absolute in- them back." Everyone gave way
The impulse to resist to the we wanted, offering to buy food, from the prison asked for our story, which we readily gave. He desirability of unwinding approxi- to us, policemen, soldiera tind
uttermost was strong and had to if we would give them manney. mately five miles of barbed wire and all traffic. The overpowering be fought with all our strength. produced a dollar note and in one apologised for the treatment we that a boat was the only way of smothering force of a huge crowd The reason for holding us was courses four eggs appeared alone, had received and said it was the swept us forward as flotsam on made obvious. We were in the, We swallowed them somehow and ignorant undisciplined mob that the prest of wave. How the hands of anti-foreign strikers and then appeared a "small packet of had taken us (a fact of which wa crowd was prevented from carry those who spoke English did not biscuits, a bunch of bananas and were only too well aware). He Another visit to the Bund at the ing out its intention of greviously fail to tell us why the mob, outside two bottles of sarsaparilla tepid, expressed the utmost regret that Customs Wharf failed to produce harming is we shall never know were clamouring for us. We were We did our best with this supply apologised for the misdemeanours boat and at the suggestion of my but we to know that the armed briefly told they all remembered but handed on the bottles of drink of our captors pleading their friend we were about to go to the guards worked like trojans to that over 100 Chinese were killed to our fellow prisoners. Hotel Asia to get a boat or to spend preserve our skins.
on Sha Ki and were angry. the night when a Chinese in Euro- This ghastly ride, at walking pean clothes and speaking a little pace, lasted for 45 minutes but. English asked what we required. one had enough detachment to We briefly explained and he offered notice the glorious night and the A crowd collected as line of Chinese gunboats in the only Chinese crowds can and do river, headed by the Wing Fùng. Asked if we had passes from the At the bridge leading out of Chinese authoritles to be there we the city we turned to the left and said no and politely asked if there presently came to a big headquar were any authorities to get one, tera, built of matshed material,"
getting back.
assistance.
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ignorance of the fact that we were
That morning the prison doctor "gentlemen"! He said his bead- came in and examined all who were quarters were unaware of our cap- sick and later sent in their medicina ture until Friday morning and western medicine at that. We that he had taken all measures were well and declined his proffered possible to release us. He had
'ministrations.
My friend had a watch and noticed that this was at 12.30 am. Apparently the crowd were told of what was done for a few minutes
Escape Possibilities. later we were ordered to march.
As we lay in the stifling atmoa- Each with a jailer holding our chains we passed out through a lane, with chains chafing our necks and of Cadets drawing as much atten, wearing us down we discussed the
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also written to the Consul General. at Shameen stating we could be handed over so soon as they sent a representative to escort us..
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