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Paraphrase telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong

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to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Dated 7th

March.

(Received Colonial Office 4.57 p.m. 7th March 1922)

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Strike. Your telegram of 7th March. My reason

for prohibiting people from leaving Hong Kong without a

permit was that owing to intimidation organised from

Canton practically all labour was being called out and

was going to Canton. If this had been allowed the

Colony would have been deruded of labour necessary to

carry on essential services and the whole life of the

community would have been indefinitely paralized since

when once in Canton strikers would have been kept there by terrorism until all extremists demands had been

conceded. It must be realised that this whole business

is political and there can be little doubt that the ultimate intention is to force British out of Hong Kong.

The seamen's strike is now settled and probably everybody will return to work in the next two days but similar agitations must be expected to recur so long as Sun Yat Sen remains in power.

As to the shooting incident some hundreds of men

started to walk to frontier and refused to turn back when called on by the police. They forced their way past police but were headed off by Assistant Superintendent

of Police with a few police and an officer of 102nd Grenadiers with 3 men. Assistant Superintendent of

Police