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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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