CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 281

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FROM A CHINESE NEWSPAPER published in Canton.RE 3 SEP 00

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ON account of the troubles in Tientsin & Taku, Reports

came to us that the Boxers have killed many Kwangtung

people so that Cantonese at present in Tientsin. are

as if sitting on blankets full of pins. The day before

yesterday the Kwong Tsai Yi Yun & the Shung Ching

Shiu Tong (two charitable institutions in Canton)

received a letter from the Tung Wah Hospital stating

circumstances the same as we had actually heard.

The latter wanted these two institutions to provide

money to rescue these people in distress. On the

27th July a meeting of 72 guilds in Canton was

convened by the Kwong Tsai Yi Yun. We hear that nothing

short of $20000 will procure a ship to go to the

North. We hear that His Excellency the Governor of

Hongkong has assisted to the extent of $5000. The

Tung Wah hospital the same amount. The two Cantonese

institutions above named $2000 each, The matter will

shortly be carried out. This good action cannot be

surpased.