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12th December.
On December 15th, Locker-Lam son made the following
statement in reply to a question by Col. Day:-
"On the 12th December H.M. Vice-Consul at Canton proceeded
down the river in H.M.S. Moorhen to evacuate foreigners from
the suburbs or the city. The party was heavil, fired on by
Communists on the way down, but succeeded in bringing away
without casuality 81 refugees, of whom 11 were british, 15
American, and 55 German. As far as is known, no foreigners
have been molested in the course of this rising."
On 13th December, it was reported by Reuter that the U.S.
gunboat "Sacramento" had landed field-guns at Shameen, and that
the guns had been pl :ced in position at the American Consulate
to protect formers who were concentrated there.
On 14th December no foreigners had been molested and
Reuter's correspondent added that "no anti-foreign feeling was
visible".
On the same day it was reported that the anti-red forces
had regained control of Canton, and later that rive Russians
had been executed, including Hassiz, the Russian Vice-Consul.
The following appeared in the "Daily Mail" of koth
December:-
"Messages from Canton st te th t the anti-reû nationalists
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