CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 510

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the island. So it was with the great majority of the servants of Hongkong. Forced to leave their employment,

in many cases without money and without the means of finding shelter, they had no alternative but to try and find the ir way out of the Colony. During the exodus they resisted the police and some unfortunately found their death house servants and cooks, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the seamen's strike, but who had been intimidated and hound- ed out of their employment by the unscrupulous agents of the Kuo Min Tang, to whom, as I have stated above, the ultimate responsibility for their death belongs.

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As agitators must live and, so far as I can gather, must live well, agitation must from their point of view continue and their dupee supply them with funds. (The seamen having obtained an increase of wages, were at once called upon to pay the major portion of such increase into the party funds, & demand which led to disruption). But to allow irresponsible, and in some cases criminal, agitation to be carried on unchecked is what no self-respecting Government can put up with, nor any civilized community tol- erate. That even in Canton this is realised would appear from recent newspaper report, according to which Your Excellency and the Garrison Commander were said to be

devising means for preventing mobs from storming police

stations and rescuing prisoners.

12.

I have gone into this question perhaps at undue length, but what I have written is merely a reiterat- ion of what I stated verbally to General Chen, when dis- cussing the Shatien affair with him, and he was inclined

to agree with much of what I said.

A continuation of resistance to lawful) y

constituted authority on the part of an ill-informed and

illiterate mob is inimical to the best interests of both

Chinese and foreigners, and once a Government allows itself

tiger, a descent.

to mount the back of a communistic so-called

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