CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 367

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fighting it singlehanded without an assurance from the

British Authorities that someone would have to pay our

loases. What the Japanese have suffered through the boycott

enforced against them must be enormous. In conversation with

the Japanese Consul the other day he informed me that, while

the boycott against Japanese goods was improving, that against

their shipping was as strenuous as ever. This proves that,

while the Chinese may not be entirely prepared to do without

Japanese goods they can very well make arrangements to pass

their shipping. Our interests in China are perhaps twentyfold

more important than those of the Japanese who, despite their

heavy subsidies, have been feeling the pinch severely. If that

ie the position with them how much more severely would it

have affected us, and when I have to consider the lose to

other interests than our own which we control here, you will

understand the necessity for our acting along the line of

least resistance unless with a guarantee of financial aid to

fight an organization which even the Hongkong Government had

to consider when they cancelled some of their banishment orders

to avert a boycott of British Goods in Hongkong which was

doubtless threatened under instructions from the Self Government

Society.

I fully realize that by capitulating to the Self

Government Society we are accentuating the difficulties of

the future, But if the Chinese Government are unable to

enforce obedience to their orders on a Society who are acting

illegally, in definance of good government and explicit orders

and contrary at all events, to the spirit of treaties, how

impossible 1s it for a firm to support the strain of a contest

with them singlehanded and with only moral support to assist

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them in gaining a victory which, after all, might only on

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