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No14
REOEIVEL
28 NOV 1927,
COL. OFFICE
50001
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
131
Sir,
HONGKONG.
26th October, 1927.
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During the past fortnight Canton has
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experienced yet another of those swift counter-
swings of the political pendulum which are so
common a feature of present-day China. The
period opened briously. On the 14th October
the Seamen's Union, true to its character as a
great political engine, indicated an unmistakable
shifting of power towards the Left. A meeting of
all members was summoned in a way calculated to
cause the maxim inconvenience to the Union's
old victims, the river-stemer companies. It is
not clear whether the
personal work of engements were the
the Union
imion's former chief, Ho Loi,
whose flight on the occasion of the anti-communist
coup of last April was recorded in paragraph 8
of the Governor's secret despatch of the 1st June?
But his name was freely used in the matter and
the result left no doubt that the extremist
section were of the opinion that the arrival of General Cheung Fat-fui as opening a new era of labour misrule. At the close of the meeting a
mob of
T RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTUMANT COLONEL 1.C.M.C. AVERY, H.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.