Enclosure No.'.
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Translation.
(Extract from Yin Tseung Po, Canton. 16th September, 1927).
Letter from the Foreign Office, advising that all Anti-
British Associations should be warned to be careful of their
actions.
On the 15th inst.. the Foreign Office of the Nationalist
Government sent a letter to the Municipal Kuomintang Depart-
ment in Canton, asking them to warn the various Anti-British
Associations that they should keep strictly secret, and be
careful and peaceful in all their movements, so that the
British may have no excuse for complaint. The letter reads
as follows:-
In the forenoon of the 14th September, the Acting
Consul-General in Canton came to our office and stated that
he had received repeated urgent telegrams from his Government
at London, the British Minister in Peking, and the British Admiral on the Yangtze asking about the date on which the
Anti-British Boycott was to commence. He said he had been
told that it had been declared that the Anti-British Boycott
should be carried into effect in this City from the 15th
instant, and demanded information so that he could make a
reply.
In reply our office has informed him that, as of late the British Government has repeatedly infringed the sovereign
ty of China and massacred our people, the latter, out of enthusiasm to save their country, might have spontaneously
resorted to the policy of boycott but that nothing has been
heard as to the definite date on which the boycott will
commence. The British Consul-General appears to be
particularly attentive to the matter, and we find it
necessary to send you this letter hoping that you will warn
all the Anti-British Associations that they should keep