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BOL. OFFICE
500012
16.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 1st June, 1927.
Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that by
Orderzin Council, made on the 26th May, under Section 4 of Societies Ordinance No. 8 of 1920, and duly
published in the Government Gazette next day, the
Chinese Seamen's Union (Chung Wa Hoi Yuen Kung Ip Lzen Hop Tsung Wui 中華海員工業聯合總會 was declared to be an unlawful society, and that
it was accordingly closed down by the Police on the
night of the 27th
28th May.
2. Constant references in my previous despatches
will have made you familiar with the fact that the Chinese Seamen's Union, whose headquarters were at Canton and which had branches at Hong Kong, Swatow, and elsewhere, was one of the most powerful and im- placable enemies of British interests in China, and
» particularly in Hong Kong. This Union, in the shape
in which it became notorious, consolidated itself
during the Great War by seizing the opportunities for organization offered by the war traffic. It first became prominent in Hong Kong in connection with the Seamen's Strike of 1922, a movement which
it
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&C.
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