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with Hongkong was renuned, and the shipping com-
panies are ruming to pre-strike schedule and are
doing well. business is hampered by labour unrest.
which affects all nationalities and the Chingae
more than others, and there is a quantity of anti-
British propaganda, which has extraordinarily
little effect on the population, but so far as trade
in the greater part of the two kwang provinces is
concerned, the anti-british agitation has practical -
ly died out, and there have been no anti-British dis-
turbances or casos of assault, or personal insult of
british subjecta in Canton from that time to the
present day. This solid improvement in the local
bituation after sixteen months of boycott and
outrage is not mentioned in the Governor's report
and one finds instead a repetition of the scarcely veiled sneer at an opinion i once expressed in a
telegram to the effect that Ar. Chen was sincere
in trying to bring the boycott to an end. I do not
refer to the subsequent progress of the Chinese
nationalist movement in the worth and the excesses
to which it has given rise in other parts of the
country, as i trust I do not have to answer personal-
ly for that.
7.
Finally I would say that i do not wish to
make too much of a grievance about what are perhaps
petty