No
SECRET.
Copies to:
Canton No. 59.
PRINTE
POR
USE
Eastern No. 145.
COLONIAL
OFFIC
Peking No. 11.
Sir,
RECEIVED
21 MAR 1927
38
89
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
CHONGKONG.
12th February, 1927.
BU APR 1
Mc
I have the honour to confirm my telegram
必
30000/20 the 10th February
No. 1.
of the 10th February and to enclose in this con-
nection a copy of a letter, dated the 9th February, which I have written to His Majesty's Consul-General
at Canton. The incident of the s. s. "Sai On",
though humiliating to British prestige, is only a small item in the steady advance by Labour in Canton towards the complete imposition of the Labour Code of Soviet Russia. At the moment, as shewn in the Lenclosed press report, the merchants of Canton appear to be making a last stand for the elementary right to decide the number of their employés. But their threatened counter-measure of complete stoppage of business, while it has in the past proved a most effective weapon in China for securing the removal
of objectionable taxation and other economic injustices, is unlikely to be of much avail in the present struggle. The forces ranged on the other side are wholeheartedly and openly Bolshevik, and the first principle of Bolshevism is that the communist state is only realis- able if capitalism in every form is ruthlessly
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEIUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
destroyed.