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With reference to recent correspondence on the
subject of the strike of Beamen and others in Hong Kong,
I am directed by Hr.Secretary Churchill to transmit to
you to be laid before the Army Council a copy of a
domiádahtial despatch that has been received from the
Governor of Hong Kong containing his report on the
strike.
2. Mr.Churchill is impressed by the apparent help-
lessness of Hong Kong in the matter of labour and good
in face of 111 disposition on the part of the authorities
in Canton; and it appears to him desirable that the
attention of the Army Council should be invited to this
aspectof the situation, and to the consequent problem of
the practicability of defending Hong Kong in war time
without the good will of those authorities,
3. A similar letter is being addressed to the
Admiralty,
ECRETARY OFFI CE.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
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