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tion the prior concession of impossible demands. The ship- owners, by enlisting northern Chinese, Filipinos, and Japanese, managed to get away ships on regular lines to foreign countries, but this expedient was of no avail in respect of the large amount of general shipping tied up in the harbour, which was full of cargo for Canton and the southern coast ports. The sympathetic strike had made it impossible to unload cargo either in Hongkong or at any near-by port on the coast of China.
16.
As time went on the situation in Canton became acute. The population generally was suffering from lack of supplies, and discontent was growing among the strikers who were kept on very short commons as regarde money, food, and housing. The organisers of the strike had apparently promised the men a struggle of three days' dura-
tion, and it became necessary for them to take decisive action. In the latter part of February intimidation prac- tised against workers in Hongkong became much more formid- able, and on the 24th February a compradore, who had been
engaging crews of northern Chinese, was murdered on the sea- front in broad daylight, This led to panic with its accom- panying crop of the wildest rumours, and a general strike of all labour in the Colony became imminent. It commenced
in the departure to Canton of the bakers and cooks in public establishments on the early morning of the 28th February.
17.
The general strike was not entirely due to
fear, but it is impossible to estimate with any certainty
the precise role played by intimidation or the exact extent to which the labouring classes were prepared to go in
sympathy with the strikers. The Chinese as a race are
notoriously an easy prey to the agitator and the bully, and
there is no manner of doubt that the population as a whole
was very badly scared. At the same time the prolongation of
the struggle was tending to bring into prominence the racial
element, which had been entirely in the background at the