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Enclosure in to Peking No. 9 of March 28th, 1922.
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Translation.
TA T'UNG PAO.
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March 28th, 1922.
Chinese in Hongkong should put into practice forthwith
self-determination.
I have previously stated that there are two eyesores for the people of Kwangtung. One is Hongkong and the other Hacao, and until these eyesores are removed we can never be wholly at rest for a single day. But what has happened recently has made the position still worae. If my readers do not believe this they have only to consider the recent Seamen's Strike.
workmen could be sent on service at will.
Chinese
Communications could
be cut in the case of Chinese at will.
sufficient evidence.
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This in itself is
Now consider the verdict on the British police for shooting
Chinese not only of not guilty but even of approval as having
done good service for the Goverment.
evidence.
merit?
That is still further
What was the reason for metamorphosing their guilt into
Merely that the real criminals as a matter of fact were
And so for the not the police but the Hongkong Government.
Hongkong Government's Court to sit in judgment on the police was merely a case of the principal criminal sitting in judgment
There never has been such a child's on the accessory criminals.
play at law as this and there never will be bigger dolts under heaven than ourselves if we look for probity in such persons. However the matter under discussion is not a question of a
criminal case but is a political question affecting the peoples
of/
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