Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-09
Shipping
Chinese FEARING DEATH 4
SEEK SAFETY IN Flight
Steamers Leaving Hongkong Crowded With Refugees From
Canon-Persa Reports Smallpox on Liner Siberia
Few Windiammers Leaving the Port-Iner- Island Sug-
ar Movements.

Fearing death at the hands of fana-
tical rebels. there are several Chinese
on board the Pacific Mail steamer
Persia now at Honolulu, who
sought safety in flight from Canton,
which at present time is said to be q
veritablc hot bed of instruction aud
riotry
During the week prior to the sail.
ing of the Persia for Japan ports, Ho-
nolulu and San Francisco, II Is csti-
mated that over two hundred thoG-
sand Chinese successfully eluded the
vigilance of the native police officers
and escaped from the walls of n city
wherein lawlessness ragged rampant.
More than fifty thousand refugees are
known to have found their way down
the Canton river to IIongkong, and
from that point many of these scat
tered to the four corners of the
earth.
According to story brought by the
officers in the Persia, at the first out
break, the Viceroy of the two
Kwongs ordered that all Canton CITY
gates he closed. That official is also
stated to have prohibited any steam
or then laying in the river To, either
depart or enter the upper reaches
and anchorage. The claim Is made by
returning missionaries and others who
left the infected area that this pre-
caution was taken in order to pre-
vent the reyolutionaries escaping by
the shipping then at the port of Can
ton. As vessels of draft under TWEEN
ty feet can come up the Canton or
Pearl river and anchor right off
the native or walled city. II would be
but an easy matter for thousands to
slip away and engage passage to
points where safety and life are con-
sidered more valuable asset
The ban on Canton shipping con-
tinued for forty-eight hours, mean
while attempts were made to control
the movements of the thousands OF
junks and other smaller craft engaged
in passenger and freight traffic. in
this most populace district of South
China.
Among the passengers in the Per-
STA and proceeding to the United
States are q number of missionary
workers who have but recently left
the infected district. They are pro-
ceedlng to the homeland on extended
leave of absence.
Despite the trouble existing In Can
ton, that city with its nearly two
million. inhabitants, continues to prove
an attractive mecca for the Great
Unterrihed" host of American tou-
rists. While the narrow streets were
encountered with the bodies of the
dead and the manned, steamship Of
ficer making hurried visit to Can
ton reports that In one street within
the walled city he met several for
eign women going about In sedan
chairs and one was carrying revol
yer, These were being escorted out
of the city by Il guard of more than
hundred soldiers. II appears that
a good many foreign visitors were In
Canton at the time, for the last Anne
rican mail was crowded, and many os
these passengers had gone up to Can
ion to do" 1t, They were on the day
In question, not merely on the con
cession, but in the city itself Their
safety, however, was adequately guar
anteed Amongst the wounded was a
colonel Of the Viceroys guards, who
was shot through the hand Some of
the guards also we're shot down by
the revolyers of the revolutionaries.
In addition to a large percentage of
missionaries, the Persia is carrying
the usual quota of Far Eastern bust
ness men enroutc to the United
States.
A close watch was kept on the Per-
STA before sailing from IIongkong or
Shanghai. by Imperial Chinese gov
eminent officials with view of pre-
venting revolutionary leaders from er-
fccting their escape. The steamer ar
rived here this morning with rs cabin