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June 24
CANTON BLACKMAIL
£1,000,000 'Compensation' to Call Off Boycott
From Our Own Correspondent
TIENTSIN, June 22. Reports from Canton indicate that the Chinese intend to demand a cash pay- ment of 5,000,000 dollars (£1,000,000) for compensation for the so-called strikers as a condition of the calling off of the boycott. The alternative plan ap- pears to be a loan, alleged to be for public works, which would free an équivalent amount either for the strikers; or for financing an anti-North campaign. If the cash is paid or the loan arranged, not only will a precedent be created for which Hong Kong will pay most dearly in the future, but it will be a gross affront to Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu, neither of whom displayed hostility to the British lest
year.
It is also stated that the Russian steather Kalima recently landed 37,500 dollars at Capton for the Central Bank of China, which pays out large sums for feeding and maintaining the strikers. Anti-foreign out- rages are bow almost of daily occurrence at Swatow.
No progress has yet been made towards the establishment of a Central Government at Peking.
HONG-KONG BOYCOTT.
CANTON STRIKERS
ATTITUDE.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
HONG-KONG, JUNE 23. The date for the opening of the negotia- tions for the settlement of the boyeatt of Hong-kong has not yet been an. nounced, nor has any basis for negotia tions been reached. The Canton Govern ment appears genuinely desirous of a settlement for reasons connected with the personal ambitions of its members. and because of the increasingly desperate; financial situation.
The labour unions, however, are suspi- ! cious. They accuse Hong-hong of evasiveness, saying that Hong-Kong agrees to discuss the boycott only as though the strike no longer existed. The unions contend that, on the contrary, the strike is still in force and must be settled, when the boycott will cease automatically. This means that the unions want money and that any settlement which would exclude the payment of blackmail must be forced upon them by the Canton Government, and it is doubtful whether the latter is strong enough.
The suggestion has been made that Centon night be allowed to float a loan in Hong-kong, but the strikers apparently distrust their Government. The Hong. kong Chinese are still willing to pay blackmail even to the extent of a quarter of a million atorling, but the Hong- kong Govermanent will not permit them.
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June 25
CANTON BOYCOTT.
CANTON, Thursday.
The Canton Government, in a long com- muniqué regarding the appointment by the Hong Kong Government of a number of dele- gates to negotiate the settlement of the Canton boycott, states that the British Consul- General's communication declared that the strike in Hong Kong had long been thing of the past, but they were willing to negotiate a settlement of the anti-British boycott. The Canton Govern- ment replied on June 22 that it was obvious that the atrike continued with such reality as to make the denial of its existence appear evasive and futile. It did not, however, desire
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a fresh impasse, but it wished to know whether the British representatives wore a purely Hong Kong delegation or a British Imperial delega- tion-Reuter.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHAMEEN SHOOTING. (FROM DER CORRESPONDENT.)
HONG-KONG, JUNE 24. Canton has quietly observed the anni- versary of the Shameen shooting. The processions avoided the Shakee Road near Shameen, where it is proposed to erect a moniment bearing the words, "Lest we forget the day.
Chang Kai-shek, the Commander of the Army, made a speech urging the boycotters to hold out to secure the restoration of Hong-kong to China and the abolition of the unequal treaties."
**The Shameen shooting took place on Tine 23 last year. A native procession, led
by Boleberists, was marching opposite Shameen the foreign settlement when sowo members of it suddenly fired on the settlement. killing French merchant and wounding two British subjects. Fronch. British. seamen and volunteers returned the fire, and other DAYA).
infilleting one hundreds of casualties.
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