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hich fixed the 15th July as the opening day of the conference. At this conference is jesty's Governments represented by Mr. J. F. Brena and the Hong Kong Government was represented by to
officiel mensers of the Executive Council, r.
J. H. Kemp and fir. B. A. Hallifax, ho have been
a tower of strength to the Colony throughout this
anxious year and then hom we could not have found
better delegates. The Canton soviet as represent-
ed by Comrades dugene Ch'an (Minister for Foroia Affairs), Sung Taz-ana ( Hinister for Hinurce) and Fu Kons-yü (à§à), Director of Propocendo.
The conference sat from the 10th the 23rd July
and was utilized by the Cantonese deletes
chiefly as medium for their propagand. It then
adjourned sine die, in order that the ritisa
delegates on the er hand might consult his
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„klopyed cab be
Majesty's Coverment on propos.l do by the Canton Government for an international enquiry into the Shakee-Shmeen incident of the 2örd Jupe, 1925, and that the Cantonese deletes on the other hand might consider the British proposal of an indus- trial loan for the construction of harbour works and loop-line railny at Canton. Directly the conference adjourned, General Tsem, Kai-sehk left for human on the northern mitive expedition": and from that nment the Cinton Government censed
to take my further interest in the negotiations,
hich it had initicted. On the contrary, the boyett
tightened. A motor boat of the hong hon, Police
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