ABSTRACT
Canton's hotels were said to be jammed with businessmen attending the trade fair, but this place was almost empty. The Communists, who had been submitting to Chiang's command at Stalin's explicit direction, were now ordered to react with a series of hopeless uprisings. An anti-British boycott and general strike that immobilized all traffic downriver from Canton and the great British port of Hong Kong, seventy miles away at the Pearl River's mouth. On the column was inscribed one of Mao's Thoughts about the revolution advancing from defeat to victory. Under a photograph showing the corpses being piled into wagons, a Shanghai newspaper captioned: 'The bodies of the dead were collected as so much cordwood and carted away for burial in a common grave'. Li Shin offered a small remonstrance. Only Chinese with special permits were allowed to enter the area from which the Hong Kong train departed.
