CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3] — Page 102

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I fully informed His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio of all these circumstances. It had seemed to me that the information that the riots here had been organised from Canton, would have been sufficient to have enabled the Japanese to have brought direct pressure to bear upon the Chinese Government, and I was therefore somewhat surprised to receive Your Lordship's telegram of which the Despatch under reply is in amplification - that the Japanese Minister appeared to be under the impression that this Government had not done as much as it might have done towards the suppression of illegal methods of promoting the Boycott. My own view was frankly that more had been done here than the Japanese could have expected, and that the Japanese Government had itself done somewhat less on the information supplied to them than they might have done.

The Kwansi (Kom Sz) Society is, as far as I can ascertain, hardly an organised Society. It is rather a name under which leaders of the Boycott movement have issued threatening letters. It has no connection with the Revolutionary Party, whose sympathies, inasmuch as the arms carried by the "fatsu Faru" were destined for revolutionaries, might be expected to be with Japan.

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101 6. I fully informed His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio of all these circumstances. It had seemed to me that the information that the riots here had been organised from Canton, would have been sufficient to have enabled the Japanese to have brought direct pressure to bear upon the Chinese Government, and I was therefore somewhat surprised to receive Your Lordship's telegram of which the Despatch under reply is in amplification - that the Japanese Minister appeared to be under the impression that this Government had not done as much as it might have done towards the suppression of illegal methods of promoting the Boycott. My own view was frankly that more had been done here than the Japanese could have expected, and that the Japanese Government had itself done somewhat less on the information supplied to them than they might have done. 7. The Kwansi (Kom Sz) Society is, as far as I can ascertain, hardly an organised Society. It is rather a name under which leaders of the Boycott movement have issued threatening letters. It has no connection with the Revolutionary Party, whose sympathies, inasmuch as the arms carried by the "fatsu Faru" were destined for revolutionaries, might be expected to be with Japan. Should

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101 6. I fully informed His lajesty's Ambassador et Tokio of all these circumstances. It had seemed to me that the information that the riots here had been organised from Canton, would have been sufficient to have enabled the Japanese to have brought direct pressure to bear upon the Chinese Government, and I was therefore somewhat surprised to receive Your Lordship's telegram of which the Despatch under reply is in amplification - that the Japanese Minister appeared to be under the impress -ion that this Government had not done as much as it night have done towards the suppression of illegal methods of promoting the Boycott. My own view was frankly that more had been done here than the Japanese could have expected, and that the Japanese Government had itself done somewhat less on the information supplied to them than they might have done. 7. The Kwansi (Kom Sz) Society is as far as I can ascertain hardly an organised Society. It is rather a name under which leaders of the Boycott movement have issued threatening letters. It has no connection with the Revolutionary Party whose sympathies, inasmuch as the arns carried by the fatsu Faru" were destined for revoluTM -tionaries, might be expected to be with Japan. Should

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I fully informed His lajesty's

Ambassador et Tokio of all these circumstances. It had

seemed to me that the information that the riots here had

been organised from Canton, would have been sufficient to

have enabled the Japanese to have brought direct pressure

to bear upon the Chinese Government, and I was therefore

somewhat surprised to receive Your Lordship's telegram

of which the Despatch under reply is in amplification

that the Japanese Minister appeared to be under the impress

-ion that this Government had not done as much as it night

have done towards the suppression of illegal methods of

promoting the Boycott. My own view was frankly that more

had been done here than the Japanese could have expected,

and that the Japanese Government had itself done somewhat

less on the information supplied to them than they might

have done.

The Kwansi (Kom Sz) Society is as

far as I can ascertain hardly an organised Society. It is

rather a name under which leaders of the Boycott movement

have issued threatening letters. It has no connection with

the Revolutionary Party whose sympathies, inasmuch as the

arns carried by the fatsu Faru" were destined for revoluTM

-tionaries, might be expected to be with Japan.

Should

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