CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 596

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arrangement has bras come to. lie med, howevər, quite agreeable to have my son on the Wecutive Committee o· Council so that

things could be done in his name, on the whole the influential merchants in Canton agr:e with me that the political #nip of

Canton-offie red, aumed and naviɛst ed as it now iạ- is bound to strike, rock, and that what the Chinese merchants in Hongkong and Canton sho ili do, and du at once, is to prepare and equip amther ship of their den for salvags pur 30 nas. This ship will be the society for the protection of trade, industry and property,

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Hongkong, hav, just fo med.

1, aɩ be request of lue odd man i

for these man cannot afford to sit tight and see their int rests

■ariously impaired, directly or indirectly, by unso raguloua or

theory-ladan politicians. Pin Britanio Hajesty's Consul-0 ener-

al expressed the o si don that the Ghinise a rchants should show

a told front, so that amongst thə mərasants in Canton thire YOU

no one capable of taking a the leadership.

The Cassell Atresment was also one of the subject” which

1 Já sou and wich Docator Jami sson, It seems that is mollifi ma

form the objectu nime at can be attained, As things go at pre-

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whole district a

one must n»0«ssarily start with rulated areas and not rith

Turn of the men who went with m· to Carton have stopped

bahing at the request of both Gun'■ and Chan's followers 1. order

to go furbar 1 to matt en wi.h a view to inducing me not to drop

negotiations with them, but to equáp thị "salvage ship" now in-

st wad of waiting for the present veosal to go upon the rocke.

futur, course of motion would of course depend upon the

OliverWise of the overtures of the Canton Govorimant,

the powers that they would zÁT, MA, KN, Abov, all, La mishes of

the Hongkong Government and the extent o assistance which they

would op»ni, or qaltly afford ma,

mincerity o

Yours sincerely,

(3igned)