Enclosure No.7.
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Honourable Captain Superintendent of Police,
FRONTIER INCIDENTS.
1. Recent happenings in Canton have had a somewhat disturb-
ing effect on the general situation across the frontier,
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particularly at Sham Chun and Shataukok.
On the 18th instant a rumour to the effect that troops
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were coming from Canton to disarm the "Lung Man" caused the
latter to panic and to abandon, temporarily, their head-
quarters at Nam Tong (Sham Chun), and at Shataukok. The
$ I majority of those at Nam Tong either fled to Wang Kong or
else buried their weapons, while those at Shataukok fled in
2 19 two parties, one to Un Tun Tau Village and the other to Ah BIZT
Ma Temple between Shataukok and Im Tin. Three days later
most of them had returned, but it was observed that they had
changed their flag - a white plough on a red ground for
that of the Nationalist Government.
In Sham Chun Market martial law was declared, and rumours
were rife of impending trouble there between the Red and White
sections of the garrison. It appears, however, that the
Hiz former, including the Garrison Commander Tang Chi Chiu, are in the minority and I hear that Tang is virtually a prisoner: also that his chief subordinate, one surnamed Lo, has assumed
carmand. That this is so is apparent from a manifesto issued
by Lo, a copy of which is attached.
2 The attempted strike of the 22nd instant on the part of
seamen at Canton seems to have been part of a plan to declare
a general transport strike in which the employees on the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway were to share. In the early evening of the 22nd engine drivers and firemen raided the locomotive sheds at Chinese Lowu,' seized two of the
engines