Enclo No. 6.

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they will be treated accordingly. He is also stated to have said that the return of foreign Concessions

and the revision of treaties were not matters for

force but for negotiation. Yet even General Pei is bound to extol Dr. Sun's "Three Peoples Principles"

which, if they are a coherent doctrine at all, must

lead to ochlocracy.

5. All these uncertainties are causing a

marked influx into Hong Kong of Chinese from Kuang-tung

During the week ending 24th April the number of passen- gers arriving by river-steamers and other inland-water

transport was 35,873 as against 25,841 departures. Owing to the interruption of through traffic on the Kowloon-Canton railway (see below Enclosure No. 7)

no data are available for arrivals and departures by

train.

6. I enclose an amusing protest regarding the

letter from the German Consul General at Canton which

forms enclosure No. 8 to my last despatch. Attention is particularly invited to the indignation of this

victim of unequal treaties at the thought of an African

being regarded as his equal.

Enclos Nos. 7-7.

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I also enclose for your information copies

of further reports dated 24th April and 1st May by

the Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories,

on the position at the New Territory frontier.

8. On the 28th April I attended by invitation the

annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of

Commerce and I attach a press report of the proceedings,

which included speeches by the Honourable Mr. D.G.M.

Bernard,

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