CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 192

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

copy.

No.757.(8610/31).

Copy to Tokyo. Shanghai, India and Chọngtu.

British Legation.

Peking.

192

December 28th, 1921.

Chengtu No.38 of

71-1-31.

My Lord,

with reference to my despatch No.583 of

October 17th relative to the attitude of the

Szechuanese towards foreigners and the prospect of

anti-foreign troubles in the province, I have the

honour to transmit herewith a copy of a despatch

from His Majesty's consul-General at dhengtu

reporting upon the establishment there of an anti-

foreign society whose members have been emitting

threats against the lives of British subjects.

+

Regarding the question of the Servants

Guild referred to in the last paragraph of the

enclosure herein, I received from His Majesty's

Consul-General a separate report in which it is

explained that the Guild was started in 1919 by

a few servants in the employ of foreigners at

the University as a protest against the manner in

which Mr Leonard, a member of the canadian Methodist

Mission, dealt with Chinese employees, The movement

spread under the encouragement of the students, and

now ambraces practically all servante in mission

employ am has developed into the so-called Labour

Self-

Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I.,

o to..

etc..

etc..

Foreign offine.

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