NO SECRET,
Copos to:
Canton No. 130.
Peking No. 32.
RINTED
FOR
USE
Bastem No. 165 LONIAL OFFICE
3000-5
RECEIVED
* 3MAY 1927
COL. OFFIC
116
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 1st April, 1927.
X
1
Copy to FO
Enclo. No. 1.
Encla. No. 2.
The events at Nanking and Shanghai have
so completely over-shadowed the local situation that little worthy of report has occurred during the last two weeks. As was to be anticipated, the naval punitive operations in Bias Bay have roused the ire of extremist agitators in Canton, who charge us in their vernacular press with the destruction of 2000 houses and the slaughter of 1,000 victims. My report on the measures taken will have already reached you and you will be aware that no casualties of any kind occurred.
2.
Another example of the lying propaganda fabricated at Canton with the deliberata purpose of inflaming anti-British feeling is contained in the attached translations of articles in Kwok Man San Man
of Canton of the 17th March and in the Man Kwok Yat Po of Canton of the 19th March, which give a malicious travesty of the events reported in the first paragraph of my secret despatch of the 18th March as having taken place in connection with the local celebration of the second anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.