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recently seized and imprisoned Mr. Cadman of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, a British subject, and at the same time seized two Indian watchmen, also British subjects. Mr. Cadman was soon released: but the two Indian watchmen were kept in prison for many days and treated with great brutality The Canton Government has not arrested nor punished the strike pickets who committed this outrage.
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I propose to describe separately in
a public despatch the numerous outrages perpetrated along the frontier of this Colony by the strike pickets since the anti-British boycott began. But here I may state briefly that, when I reached Hongkong on the 1st November, I found that Canton Strike pickets had invaded and occupied a portion of the New Territory near Sha-t'au-kok. I at once caused them to be ejected by a detachment of the Punjabi Regiment. Strike pickets have repeatedly fired at the Hongkong Police launch in the Sham-chun River, which is British water. They also fired at a company of the Punjabi Regiment patrolling our frontier near Ta-ku-ling. They habitually waylay villagers crossing the frontier,levy tollupon them, and prevent them from carrying foodstuffs across the border. On the 16th July last strike pickets fired upon eight Chinese women carrying fruit over the Sham-chun River from Chinese into British territory: two were killed: two were drowned and three were seized and carried off to Canton. I may add that in defiance of the Joint Working Agreement of the Kowloon-Canton Railway strike pickets prevent trains from running
across the frontier in either direction.
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