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I attach copies of these two letters. No further
communication on this subject has been received
by me from the Canton Government.
6.
In consequence of the present anti- British boycott in Canton, I found that prior to my arrival practically all communication both between this Government and the British Consul-General at
Canton and also between the British Consul-General
at Canton and the de facto Government at Canton had been suspended. Sir James Jamieson and Sir Edward
Stubbs had not met each other since the outbreak of
the trouble in June last, nor had Sir James Jamieson
left the Shamien and entered the Chinese city to visit any Cantonese officials since that date.
Sir James in fact wrote to me that it would be
unhealthy for him to do so, in view of the fact that he was on the list for assassination. I at once invited Sir James to visit me in Hongkong, and he
was with me at Government House from the 11th to the
19th November. As a result of my conversations
with him, it became evident to me that negotiations
with the Canton Government would not be carried on
by him, and that if such negotiations were to take
place I must myself get into direct personal touch with the officers of the de facto Government in
Canton.
7.
As a first step I made a speech at the
Hongkong University on November 11th, which was
in effect an offer of friendship to the Canton
Government and a suggestion that we should let
byegones be byegones, end the boycott and resume the
old amicable relations between Hongkong and Canton.
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