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As to whether or not the Government of Hongkong acted ultra vires is a question solely fro His Majesty's Government, to whom all the facts of the case have been submitted, to decide. Once having issued their orders, however, they could not allow them to be flouted by those under their jurisdiction.
7.
If Your Excellency be of opinion, as is to
be inferred from the last paragraph of the communication under acknowledgment, that they acted in contravention of International Law or exceeded their powers, it is always open to Your Excellency to bring a test action in the British Courts, or to appeal to the League of Nations. The fact remains that, whoever may have incurred responsibility, it certainly was not Mr. King.
8.
Having said so much on one side of the case,
I will now permit myself a few observations on the other side, and, as an impartial looker-or, affer my own opinion se to who was, in the last resort, responsible for this unfortunate accurrence. In offering it, I am not singular, as it has been confirmed by other independent investigators. Those who are in reality responsible are the Kuo Min Tang in Canton, their leaders and agents, who instigated, aided and abetted a movement, whereby it was sought to ruin industrially the neighbouring Colony of Hongkong.
9. The seamen's strike was mainly factitious.
There was no universal grievance amongst the men, inasmuch as last summer, of their own accord, the leading coasting steamship Companies had raised wages to meet increased cost of living, and on the Pacific and European lines wages were high end men were paying anything from £100 to £1000 to
secure a job, se on those routes wages are a trifle compared with other opportunities of making money, which offer
themselves. It is not foreigners who "sweat" Chinese: it
is the Chinese themselves. Take for instance the lowest
pre-strike