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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the

Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.

(Sent 5.20 p.m. 17th March, 1922).

Strike.

Your cypher telegram 11th March

here line.17/3. Kirkpatrick has expressed verbally entire concurrence with the view you put forward in your cypher telegram 7th March especially as to political nature of strike

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and as to the ultimate intention to force British out of Hong Kong. He considered that so long as Sun Yat Sen or a leader of the same type is in control at Canton there exists a danger of an attack on Hong Kong by forces possibly amounting to seventy thousand men. Such an attack could not be met by the present arri son and he said that he had represented this to War Office advising five Battalions should be added to the garrison. Telegraph your views as to the sufficiency of present garrison and General Kirkpatrick's proposal for an addition thereto, about which I am asking the War Office for an expression of their views.

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