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to us, either here or in Manila, but are acting under compulsion in fear of retaliation by the Self Government Society's tools
This is, as you are aware, what happened
if they disobey.
in the case of the Japanese boycott riots here.
I notice that you state in your letter to the Secretary of State that we did not keep you informed of the situation as we should have done, but the venue was necessarily in Canton until the 5th June when Mr. Fox informed me personally that he had come to the end of his tether and could do
nothing more.
Negotiations, it must be remembered, had been going on uninterruptedly through Mr. Fox from the 30th November last until 5th June, on which date, in view of what Mr.Fox told me, I felt justified in trying to effect a
It was not until the 8th of June settlement unofficially.
I was that the boycott was officially declared here, and warned that unless a settlement could be arranged promptly with the Self Government Society the scope of the boycott would be extended.
Indeed I am convinced that, had we not shewn a desire to meet the Self Government Society, the boycott would have spread further afield than Hongkong and Manila. By our action we have, for the present, succeeded in confining it to these two ports.
As far as our action in the matter is concerned,
it is a most humiliating to us to be forced to surrender to the Self Government Society, but we have many intereste to
I admit consider, all of which were threatened, and while that it would have been much more dignified to fight the Self Government Society, both for our own and British prestige
fighting I feel that I was not justified in shouldering the burden &
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