CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 400

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if he was killed) received an anonymous letter mentioning

the names of all four and se; ing. "You are four heroes! But

it is not allowed". This brought them out that day.

at this time a lady from Singapore was staying with us with her child and an azaḥ when she had

brought with her. The wah, a stranger to Hongkong,

declared that she must leave when the others left. Även

when it was pointed out to her that her employer was taking

her back to Simmpore next day and that she would be perfectly safe till then as she could stay in the house till the moment of departure, she could not be dissuaded. Somebody bad told her that she would be cut in piecas if she stayed. Enquiries as to who was to undertake the cut- ting elicited the answer "The big man in Canton" (? Sun Yat Jen). Beyond that nothing could be get out of her except *You can't understand. I must go". Eventually she cm- provised by proceeding secretly to the stealer and locking herself into har mistress' cabin till the time of departure

next day.

I relate these trivial incidents as shov-

ing the widespread extent of the intiridation and at the same time its curiously indefinite charseter which made it extraordinarily difficult to take any counter-measures.

Boubtless the organisers were out of our

reach in Canton but the fact that we could not obtin information as to the identity of any of the local instru- ments shews the abject state of fear to which the working

classes were reduced,

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The Colony has now remmed its nomal stato but, as I have already obrarved, there is always the danger that the Kwok Ean Tong ray seize my excuse for similar action in future and I venture to urge that it is imperativaly necessary that the Powers should take some

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