Consous to be bome in thrund on our part are
(1) that this service is conducted for the
benefit of the Brition
The British Community "at
Swaton & not
for that
of Akring
(2) that the suspension of the service and not
cractly benefit the goodwill of the CSNCO.
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C.O. at the conference.
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No.
In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
and address
F 744/1/10
not to any person by name,
int to
**The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
C. 5363
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.1.1.-
4th March, 1926.
Sir,
6
MAR 1926
10
I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to
state, for the consideration of Mr. Secretary Amery, that
his attention has lately been drawn to the position arising for
certain British companies engaged in the shipping trade with
South Chinese ports, as a result of the present boycott directed
against British goods.
2.
The firm principally concerned would appear to be the
Chinese Steam Navigation Company (Kessrs. Butterfield and Swire)
who have hitherto maintained a service between Hongkong and
Swatow and £moy. Owing to the anti-British boycott which was
extended from Canton to Swatow in connection with the distar-
bances at the former port last year, this service had to be
suspended, and, as will be seen from the enclosed copy of a
letter addressed by the Shanghai office of the firm to the
British Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese vessels which in the
interval have been calling at Swatow in order to furnish the
British residents there with provisions and general sup lies
have been likewise compelled to suspend their service, owing to
a threat on the part of the local population to apply the boy-
cott to them.
3. The problem of providing for the small British communit at Swatow, numbering some fifty persons, has thus arisen in an acute form. It would appear from the enclosed letter that it
was at the request of the Hongkong Government that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire undertook temporarily last December to
rencw.....
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.