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HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
25th February, 1927.
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Sir,
I have the honour to confirm my telegram of
the 23rd February on the local situation. The forecast
contained in the first paragraph of my secret despatch of
the 12th February as to the issue of the struggle between
merchant and labour in Canton appears in process of
realization. It is true that the Canton police have forcib-
ly removed pickets from some eight hundred shops, but the
"Peasants' and Labourers' Bureau", which is charged with the
task of mediating between employers and employees in this
matter has completely failed to achieve any amicable
settlement, all conferences being rendered abortive by the
communistic abuse showered on the employers by the workmen's
representatives. It is abundantly clear that the latter
will not rest until the obnoxious order is withdrawn and
until the merchants now resisting them are reduced to the
same level of impotence as those who were excluded from the
operation of the order because they had already capitulated
to Labour and entered into arrangements to accept its
dictation. The very name of the Bureau in question is
significant. It bears, as do all the activities and
institutions of the Kuomintang, the plain stamp of Russian
Bolshevism of the theory that the manual labourer must be
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
lord