OUTRAGE AT CANTON

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10096, 8 September 1925, Page 5

OUTRAGE AT CANTON

BRITISH JOURNALISTS 1M-

PRISONED

HEAVY CHAIN CHAMPED TO

NECKS

PRISONERS LATER RELEASED AND APOLOGIES TENDERED.

<EEDTEE’S TELEGRAM.) (Received Sept. 8.12, a.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 7

An outrage was perpetrated at Canton. Two British journalists, Mr O. Cox of the Daily Express, and Mr F. Oliver, of the Morning Post, went to Canton as special correspondents. They were pursued by a crowd of a thousand strikers blandishing sticks and attempting to surround the newspapermen. Finally, the Britishers took shelter at the headquarters of the Labor army, where they, suffered an added indignity, being surrounded 1 by Yvhampao cadets with fixed bayonets. A heavy chain ton feet long was tightly clamped to the necks of the newspapermen who were, then imprisoned with fourteen Chinese prisoners, who had been incarcerated in a filthy stench ridden poison for more than a month. A crowd clustered round the prisoners clamoring to kill the foreigners The pressmen had no food for fourteen hours. ~ Later, three officials ordered the removal of the chain and took them to the cadets headquarters where They apologised profusely for thentreatment. , Later Messrs Cox and Oliver weie conveyed to the Shamcou.