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passed and that they have therefore won a victory over the bourgeois. Then they will be more uppish than ever and there will be more labour troubles.
Therefore the less of two evils is to abandon opposition and pretend to be in favour of abolition.
I have not seen Pollock but I have no doubt that my information was correct when it was given to me on Friday night, and I write this in case you are suprised to hear that the bill has gone through in
spite of what I said in my despatch.
Now,however, for the kaleidoscope, again.Do not be surprised if the op osition is pressed vehemently in spite of what is said in this letter.
Because, the fear of giving 'face' to labour wione was que very 1 rgely to the fact that Sun Yat Sen's party nad regained the ascendancy in Canton. Sun was to leave Shanghai for Canton on Saturday morning. But on Friday night there was trouble in Canton between the various armies and Sun's chief friends came off worse. His Governor is a refugee: hia Cormander in Chief (Ngai Bong Ping, the best man of the lot) is either dead or a prisoner or a
refugee I have detailed information in favour of
each