CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6] — Page 368

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paper, for any settlement short of complete suppression of the Self Government Society is not at all unlikely to lead to a secret boycott in retaliation for the share we would be

and credited with in fighting them through our Government, this would be much more pernicious than the and difficult to contend against than the present openly declared policy they have adopted. If however the British Government on your representation and taking into consideration all the facts, which prove conclusively the injustice and illegality of the Self Government Society's action against us, would instruct us not to come to a settlement & promise that we should be indemnified for all losses by someone, there is, I can assure you, no question of our willingness to fight the

In my opinion

a clearly announced ultimatum by the British to the Chinese Government would bring things to a head promptly if they were told that we had been ordered not to come to a settlement and that the losses we may suffer through the action of the Self Government Society will have to be paid by China. However repugnant it may be to advocate severe measures it will undoubtedly prove the more merciful way in the end for the Chinese Government to put terror into the hearts of the leaders of Self Government Societies both in

If not done while these Self Canton and elsewhere in China. Government Societies are in their infancy the Chinese Government will rue the day of their supineness, for every success these organizations meet with will only encourage them to aim for greater and still greater power, until the position becomes, it can well be imagined, impossible and unbearable, leading to foreign pressure on the Chinese Government to suppress the incubus, and this may well end

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357 paper, for any settlement short of complete suppression of the Self Government Society is not at all unlikely to lead to a secret boycott in retaliation for the share we would be and credited with in fighting them through our Government, this would be much more pernicious than the and difficult to contend against than the present openly declared policy they have adopted. If however the British Government on your representation and taking into consideration all the facts, which prove conclusively the injustice and illegality of the Self Government Society's action against us, would instruct us not to come to a settlement & promise that we should be indemnified for all losses by someone, there is, I can assure you, no question of our willingness to fight the In my opinion a clearly announced ultimatum by the British to the Chinese Government would bring things to a head promptly if they were told that we had been ordered not to come to a settlement and that the losses we may suffer through the action of the Self Government Society will have to be paid by China. However repugnant it may be to advocate severe measures it will undoubtedly prove the more merciful way in the end for the Chinese Government to put terror into the hearts of the leaders of Self Government Societies both in If not done while these Self Canton and elsewhere in China. Government Societies are in their infancy the Chinese Government will rue the day of their supineness, for every success these organizations meet with will only encourage them to aim for greater and still greater power, until the position becomes, it can well be imagined, impossible and unbearable, leading to foreign pressure on the Chinese Government to suppress the incubus, and this may well end in a
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edu mort conswees (a duoddiw babaereignta si gaitzit

*o veq od ovad bluor exоemos Jaid seid kuorijnA dat taxa

ddoogod one digwordt bereilua eved easnaqub edt dedW .398801

riðiw notšneravпoo I .ajourione od jeum werlt dunisza bourotus

elidr Jadj em benzoʻtat en ysb radio edu Ivanou enensqet edd

denisge døds 3utvonqut agw aboog gaennqst Jenings jjooyod erfa

t Jard asvouq atrT .I9VO ag Jounoja pa saw goiqqlıda «ient

Juorti ob od boneqonq vienijue od toa yen 920mtNO orid olidw

Basq od adiomagaszno odam Llow yuav ono yarid aboog oseneqet

DIOłyjnew) Bqadxog ens suido ni ajeerejat qo ⚫antqqida xi9Nj

zioni estqaeb ‚odw easiegel odd no eaorté made fundsoqat eroz

Jødt TI .vierevea doalq ont gatleet moed oved ‚antüṭadua qveod

*i biwow ylenevea enom ioum wod medë dëby goldtong oft af

où aaof adj reblanoo od evar I uery Bas *ou bejosiis evad

itiw woy (exed IonJnno ow đobiN ICO QUO Linilý aðvozajat ueɗdo

to enti eds gnola gnidos to not yðlaasoen edt basterebAu

od bis Ielonania to gedaeteug e djiw baelau conejsiser Jassi

bań Jusmrievoð guodgaon eft neve soldw notdentnegro as digit

atebro duomletoad qbod♪ to emos DelIscaso yedë mode xebienoo ot

Bew doldw sno1guo¤ at abool daitis¤ to jdooyed a drove of

JfemrtevoÐ 1182 odd morì anoijowidant robnu banejaoʻnj zaeftduob

.quefoo2

hled odt oð gaitelusiqso yd jedj esileet yllut I

10 ast[uottuih odj gmiðaujnsoor ers ow yjefoo2 inemtrevoð

ot eldsnu era ƒnamızevoð easaiɗo eft ti Jua .eшjut out

grivos ens odw všetook a no #rebio alert of aomeibodo sonoîne

BIDIO Jłotique Dne Sneшrisvog boog to Oulunṭtob af ILsgolli

wod (asijbers to Jiziqe odd od 、aditeve 1Io da grandãos bas

Joojnos a to nierje edt Jroqqua of milt 8 101 Ji at oldtesoqul

Jaions of droqque lanom yino dêty bus bebredolgała madi dółw

no vino Jrgin Lla rojis,dotdw yrojsiv s gatalog si modJ TG <T

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paper, for any settlement short of complete suppression of the Self Government Society is not at all unlikely to lead to a secret boycott in retaliation for the share we would be

and credited with in fighting them through our Government, this would be much more pernicious the and difficult to contend against than the present openly declared policy they have adopted. If however the British Government on your representation and taking into consideration all the facts, which prove conclusively the injustice and illegality of the Self Government Society's action against us, would instruct us not to come to a settlement & promise that we should be indemnified for all losses by someone, there is, I can assure you, no question of our willingness to fight the

In my opinion Self Government Society to the bitter end.

a clearly announced ultimatum by the British to the Chinese Government would bring things to a head promptly if they were told that we had been ordered not to come to a settle- ment and that the losses we may suffer through the action of the Self Government Society will have to be paid by China. However repugnant it may be to advocate severe measures it will undoubtedly prove the more merciful way in the end for the Chinese Government to put terror into the hearts of the leaders of Self Government Societies both in

If not done while these Self Canton and elsewhere in China. Government Societies are in their infancy the Chinese Government will rue the day of their supineness, for every success these organizations meet with will only encourage them to aim for greater and still greater power, until the position becomes, it can well be imagined, impossible and unbearable, leading to foreign pressure on the Chinese Government to supress the incubus, and this may well end

in a

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