79
No. 1926
HONGKONG.
CORRESPONDENCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE
SETTLEMENT OF THE BOYCOTT,
No. 1.
SIR,
REPUBLIC OF CHINA, NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT,
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
CANTON, June 5th, 1926.
I have the honour to inform you that my Government is ready to enter into negotia- tion with the Government of Hongkong regarding the Canton-Hongkong Strike.
My Government is prepared to appoint three Delegates with plenipotentiary powers; and it believes that the Government of Hongkong will deem it advisable to appoint the same number of Delegates with like powers to conduct the negotiations on its behalf.
I
am, etc., etc., etc.,
Sir CECIL CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.,
Governor, &c., dc., &c.,
Hongkong.
No. 2.
(Sd.)
CH'EN YU-JEN,
Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 14th June, 1926.
SIR,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch forwarding a letter addressed to me on June 5th by Mr. Ch'ên Yu-jên, the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs at Canton. In reply to the latter I shall be obliged if you will kindly inform Mr. Ch'ên that the strike in Hongkong has long been a thing of the past, but that I have appointed the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax as representatives of the Hongkong Government to negotiate with the official representatives of the Canton Government a settlement of the anti-British boycott, and that I should be glad to learn when the negotiations can be commenced.