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exhortation the Canton Press indulged in. The
reproduction of such articles in the Native Press
would have been continued indefinitely had this
Government not taken power to stop it.
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Subsue 2.
Enclosure 3.
Aclosures 4(a), (b)
Enclosure 5
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Enclosure 2, published in Canton and reproduced
here, is a sample of an article which not only encourages
the boycott but refers to undefined penalties imposed
on those who dared to use the cars.
Enclosure 3 leaves no doubt as to interference
with the liberty of those who might desire to use the
cars. I protested to the Tu Tu through His Britannic
Majesty's Consul General at Canton against such
publications. I enclose copies of two memoranda Mir,
Jamieson wrote to Mr.Wu Hon-man on the subject. It
was not however till the 3rd.of January that the
Governor General took any action in the matter.
Enclosure 5 is a peculiarly mischievous paragraph
which appeared in a Canton newspaper and was not
only reproduced in the Hongkong Press but was found
cut out and posted in a street.
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In my despatch of the 16th.of December, I wrote
that no further breaches of the Peace had occurred
but that secret intimidation existed. The enclosure
is an excellent example of how easily such intimidation
is imposed on a morally timid and oredulous people
like the Chinese.
Throughout the boycott not a single instance of
stabbing with packing needles came to the notice of
the Palice. But because it was stated in the Press
that such cases had occurred and because etsiESSSSS.
threats were made in writing that such punishment
would be inflicted on any who used the cars, no
Chinese