their efforts and in a recent despatch the Governor alludes to the possibility of Chinese merchants in
Hongkong being induced to participate in the boycott
closing down their businesses
Prompt measures have been taken to counteract this
fut
tendency in its early stages, and I need hardly say that should any such development take place it would be fraught with the most serious consequences.
28/1926.
Telegram from the Secretary of State for the
Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.
(Sent 2.15 p.m.,13th February, 1926)
562
Confidential.
Your Confidential despatch 24th
December Paragraph 9. Please report by telegram
as soon as possible how much of loan has been lent locally to date how long you anticipate whole £3,000,000 can be made to last and generally as to
financial position.
AMERY.