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COL. OFFICE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 9th June, 1927.
2012
Sir,
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The Canton Political Council, whose
appointment was reported in my secret despatch of the 26th May, has as one of its first acts, promulgated the final text of the long-debated
regulations dealing with labour disputes: (see
my confidential despatch of the 15th January
30182/27ZY
last). A copy of these regulations as published
closure No in the local press is enclosed and attention is
specially invited to the duties imposed on the
Police in regard to strike-breakers by Regula-
tion No. 7. Even when due allowance has been
made for the divergence, so usual in China, be-
tween published and actual intention, these
regulations promulgated by an anti-Bolshevik
régime within a few weeks of the violent sup-
pression of its antagonists must form a fresh warning against undue optimism. It is indeed
difficult to understand how any hopes of an
early improvement of the British position in
China can be entertained. The Nationalist
upé to
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
party
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