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exhortation the Canton Press indulged in. The

reproduction of such articles in the Native Press

would have been continued indefinitely had this

Government not taken power to stop it.

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Subsue 2.

Enclosure 3.

Aclosures 4(a), (b)

Enclosure 5

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Enclosure 2, published in Canton and reproduced

here, is a sample of an article which not only encourages

the boycott but refers to undefined penalties imposed

on those who dared to use the cars.

Enclosure 3 leaves no doubt as to interference

with the liberty of those who might desire to use the

cars. I protested to the Tu Tu through His Britannic

Majesty's Consul General at Canton against such

publications. I enclose copies of two memoranda Mir,

Jamieson wrote to Mr.Wu Hon-man on the subject. It

was not however till the 3rd.of January that the

Governor General took any action in the matter.

Enclosure 5 is a peculiarly mischievous paragraph

which appeared in a Canton newspaper and was not

only reproduced in the Hongkong Press but was found

cut out and posted in a street.

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In my despatch of the 16th.of December, I wrote

that no further breaches of the Peace had occurred

but that secret intimidation existed. The enclosure

is an excellent example of how easily such intimidation

is imposed on a morally timid and oredulous people

like the Chinese.

Throughout the boycott not a single instance of

stabbing with packing needles came to the notice of

the Palice. But because it was stated in the Press

that such cases had occurred and because etsiESSSSS.

threats were made in writing that such punishment

would be inflicted on any who used the cars, no

Chinese