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given a violently anti-foreign complexion, which it still
retains. I have also addressed a written protest to the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs a copy of which I enclose,
requesting a removal of the Nung Man and their leader fran
Shata ukok, so as to avoid a serious incident. A copy of the
Chinese text of my letter has been sent to General Feng Tsuk-
men the Commissioner of Labour and Agriculture. I have had
to request an interview with General Feng on other matters,
when I will refer to this question as well.
4.
At the same time, I would ask whether Your
Excellency's attention has been called to the 5th enclosure
in your secret despatch to the Colonial Office of the 15th
September. It is a report by Mr. W. G. Gerrard, the Assistant Superintendent of Police for the New Territories,
and it describes precisely one of those incidents regarding
which the Canton authorities make bitter complaint, and
which have always been denied by Your Excellency's Government The Chinese have repeatedly said that when they take action against the pirates and bandits in the Bias Bay area, the latter are allowed to seek refuge in Hong Kong. This is always repudiated by the Hong Kong authorities, who reply that the charge is without foundation. But Mr. Gerrard's report describes, in language which might have been used by the Canton Foreign Office itself, how a band of brigands, the ex-followers of Chen Chiung-ming in Hong Kong, made a marauding expedition in the neighbourhood of Bias Bay; how they killed and captured a number of the regular troops belonging to forces of the Canton Government, and how, when a larger force was sent against them by the General in command of the district at Waichow, they, or at all events
the leaders, took refuge in Hong Kong. The captured
regulars