Sir It may ought then better
Ron Frise, woven in a
duct Expressions
per. 4.
Confl. dass,
هستتقاست
are contering
I wish her wa
анг
apprehensive
H. Kang für
I
michief by
CONFIDENTIAL.
2266290
Regd. 17 Mary 15
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 8th. April, 1915.
I then maydo
indicating in anti-Japanese views
openly
20 $ ./S
He is neually a reticent man. I think we
may
trust hues to confide his misis to
the Sops. ad CM.
21.5.15
Sitt. Perhaps a private letter & bir it. May from the Loft windd not be amin
IHe has so
often
his mistrust &
ass prrectly express
antipattery of the
Japonia a it seems very important
that no indications
him
views.
mad
strong & persistent
Then strong
7 22.5715
I think I will not write.
If he used foolish language publicl I ohd. disavow him & make him
withdraw.
H
23.5.15
Enclosure !..
do..
ཀ
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit the enclosed
copy of a letter addressed to me by the Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council on the subject of the demands which Japan is now making upon China, together with a paraphrase of the telegram in wich I communicated to you the purport of the letter.
A copy of these demands is enclosed. It has
2.
only recently reached the Colony through private sources, other- -wise the Chinese Community world without doubt have made earlier representations in the matter.
3.
Since the date when rw oure of the action
Japan is taking first reached the Colony, I have made every effort to impress upon the lendere of the Chinese Community the necessity of refraining from giving the Japanese the slightest pretext for intervention in China; and I have counselled them to
use their influence with their friends in Canton towards the sue
object.
The Authorities at Canton have been unrelaxing
in their efforts in the same direction, but in spite of these
efforts a boycott of Japanese trade, the only weapon available to
the Chinese in the South, at any rate, is gradually being orgnized, and has increased with the increased tension in the
negotiations
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS MARCOURT, „P.,
&c.,
&C..
tc...