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SIR R. STUBBS
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Colonial office
11 6, 1922
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Sir R. Stubbs proposed, in a telegram of March 26, 1922, that His Majesty's Government should approve a private loan by a bank to Chen Chiung Ming, Governor of Canton, to consolidate his position against Sun Yat sen, who, it was anticipated, would try to oust him from
power.
The Foreign Office informed the Colonial office that His Majesty's Government should not countenance
loans to Chen Chiung Ming or any other steps savouring
of intervention in quarrels of Chinese military leaders,
It was further pointed out that financial assistance
to one political party would imply recognition of that
party and be irreconcilable with the neutral attitude
hitherto adopted by His Majesty's Government.
In reporting on the history and origin of the
Hongkong Strike of January and February 1922 Sir J.
Jamieson, Consul General at Canton commented strongly on the "abysmal" ignorance of the Hongkong Government
with regard to the affairs of the adjacent provinces
in China and their underestimation of the hostile forces
developing on the mainland. He considered that prior
to the strike the animosity of Canton for the Hongkong
Government had been needlessly increased by certain un-
fortunate incidents and the general disposition of the
latter to treat the Province as a suburb of the Colony;
and that a desire to humiliate their arrogant neighbour
was largely responsible for the sympathetic attitude
towards...