JOURNALISTS ILL-TREATED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 September 1925, Page 5

JOURNALISTS ILL-TREATED.

CHAINED AN*D IMPRISONED.

OUTRAGE AT CANTON. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SHANGHAI, Sept. 7. An outrage was perpetrated at Canton. Two British journalists, Messrs J. Cox (Daily Express) and F. Oliver (Morning Post) went to Canton as special correspondents. They were pursued by a crowd of a thousand strikers brandishing sticks am> attempting to surround the newspapermen. Finally the Britishers took shelter at the headquarters of the Labour army, where they suffered added indignity. Surrounded by Whamjiao cadets with fixed bayonets a heavy chain ten 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 prison for more "than a month. The crowd clustered round the prison, clamouring 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 the treatment. Later Cox and Oliver were conveyed to Shameen.