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to spread broadcast cemunist doctrines as to the inter- relation of the European employer and the Chinese labourer. An unsatisfactory feature of the affair was the impossibility of getting any information as to the intimidation that was going on. The Chinese Police and the District Watchmen Force were entirely useless in this respect though they must have had the amplest evidence available, and the merchant class divulged nothing, though the reason in their case was that they were terrified of consequences,
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The Government took immediate steps to deal with the situation. It was apparent that all labour was under orders to leave the Colony for Canton, and on the 28th February an order was issued extending to persons of Chinese race the rule already in fores inthe case of Europeans, that no one might go out without a passport or a pass.
On the afternoon of the 28th February an ordinance was passed giving the Governor-in-Council powers to make any emergency regula- tions whatsoever in the public interest, and regulations of a far-reaching character were forthwith made. Arrangements had already been rade for manning all the essential services of the Colony, and the men were warned to be ready to take up their posts. A strike advisory committee, composed partly of officials and partly of leading members of the comunity,
met daily to arrange for organisation in every direction, and matters were put in train for carrying on all the Colony's services by means of European labour. A censorship of letters and telegrams between Hongkong and Canton was established for the purpose mainly of stopping the atriks organizers' obvious lines of communication. The strike spread rapidly. Domestic servants came out first and practically every class of labour followed suit, with the exception of men directly employed by the Government, the most important section of whom were the scavenging coolies. Even clerks employed in