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SECRET. (2))
Copies to:
Canton No. 51.
Peking No. 9.
Sir,
OF
THE
RINY
FOR USE
Eastern
No. 145.
COLONIAL
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
CHONGKONG.
4th February, 1927.
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I have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 3rd February regarding the trade situation. Apart from the piracy of the s. s. "Seang Bee" reported in my telegram of the 31st January, Chinese New Year has passed without incident so far as this Colony is con-
cerned. The native financial settlement is reported
to have been satisfactory. But I can, unfortunately,
build little hopes for the future on these few days of peace. There is, on the contrary, every sign that as soon as the private preoccupations of this festive season are over, the Russian school of world-revolu-
tionists centred in Canton will strain every nerve to promote in Hong Kong the dictatorship of Labour which is now so prominent a feature of Canton life (see my confidential despatch of the 15th January and my secret despatch of the 21st January). An example of the anti-
enclosed translation of a resolution by the "Propaganda
Enclos Nos.1 & 2 British campaign conducted by these men is given in the
Sections of the rear" published in the Canton vernacular press of the 19th January. The calumny regarding the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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LIMUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&C.,
British
&c.,
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