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Armed Gauzehes in three cases have deserted and it has
been necessary to complete them with Haval Ba+ings.
It is probabis that the other Launch will have to ba
similarly completed in due cours0.
Until recently it has been necessary to m₺
a strong guard on river steknara conveyin troops,
ratings and stores to the Shameen, Canton, These guards
have served a dual ṛurpose, firstly to protect the
Chinese crowns working the ships from agitators and others
and to guard the stores eta. embarked and secondly to
work the ship book should the arew desert at canton.
in two nocasions when all river stemmers oensed it was
necessary to men and are H.F.A. "ST. MOHANCE" and R.7 .A.
"MARKI" for the purpose of conveying stores and troops
to Conten. Thana trips WETO BROCKBsfully carried through
without incident.
BNATI
The situation at Swatow la
summarised in enclosures Hoa, 2, 3 and 4 hereto. fines t
reports it would appear that the mob have got out of hand
and have cmsed damage to foreign property and on the
night of lat ♬ly "B′URAZIL" found it necessary to land
an armed party at the Customs Compound for about three or
four hours.
Agitatore appear to be boarding British Ships
in harbour with the object of intimidating their orewS
and a party from "SZUESELL" wes necessary on let July to
Conditions on remove agitatore from 8.3. "HAN SHANG".
shore would appear to be very bad for the strikers.
Their accommodation is bad and inmnitary and food inado-
d cuate and the strike would appear to be decidely unpesular.
▲ foreign boycott has been declared and endsay-
ours are being made to prevent supplies rouching H.M.9.