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Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong
of State for the Colonies.
Dated 8th August
36962
Feretary
12 AUG 25
91
(Receivedcolonial Office 9.56 a.m., 8th August, 1925.)
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Committee of the Chamber
er of Commerce request me to
send you the following telegram and to ask that so much
of it as you think wise may be communicated to the press,
begins: - (1) Hong Kong workers and seamen have no
grievance against employers but were intimidated by or
bribed by Canton Bolshevist agitators to strike and a great
number having accordingly left the colony are being
forcibly restrained from returning (11) Owing to Government
emergency measures and the splendid exertions of the
inhabitants essential services and internal security of
Hong Kong maintained but canton-created blockade and
boycott of entire trade between Hong Kong and South China still relentlessly continues, all steamship communication between Canton and Hong Kong being cut off and resulting
loss from such blockade to Chinese and foreign business
and shipping is enormous. The consequences must prove disastrous to Lancashire and Yorkshire export trade while
in addition there is complete paralysis of very valuable raw silk trade and other exports from canton, in which
British firms are largely interested. (iii) Existing "de facto" Canton Government (a) is in rebellion against the China Government Peking and will repudiate and defy any arrangement arrived at between the Powers and the uhina Government (b) at its inception only two months ago allowed Canton mob mercilessly to massacre and mutilate
? who hundreds of their late Yunanese opponents had already laid
down