CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 580

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H.B.M.Consulate General,

CANTON, 14th. November, 1908.

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I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency

copy and translation of a despatch which I received this

morning from the Viceroy of the Liang Kwang in reply to

a letter of mine, dated the 7th. instant, in which I com-

municated the substance of Your Excellency's despatch No.

145 on the subject of the boycott of the goods of Japanese

dealers in Hongkong.

Your Excellency will observe that the Viceroy

denies the existence of a "National Disgrace Society" in

Canton, and from information which I have received from Chinese sources and the Japanese Consul, I have reason to believe that this Society does, in name, no longer exist.

Its functions would, however, appear to have been taken over by the notorious Self Government Society of Can- ton, a body which, under the cloak of the movement towards constitutional reform and the enlightenment of the Chinese people, carri es on active propaganda aga inst foreign in- terests and enterprise in China, and which undoubtedly

*tal exercises a powerful influence over the Canton-both in China and in all British Colonies where Cantonese are to be found

Your Excellency will doubtless have noticed in recent issues of the Hongkong papers paragraphs reporting meetings of the Society and communications issued to the Chinese press deprecating the recent rioting in Hongkong and exhorting the Cantonese to keep the peace and abstain from anti-Japanese demonstrations.

The translation of an article in the Chinese news -paper *An Ya Pao", which I have the honour to enclose, furnishes a striking example of the methods adopted by the

Society