CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 682

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paragraph 6 of the latter despatch. The Chinese Police and

the entire Chinese population, as on the occasion of the 1922 strike, have not given the smallest assistance in this

direction, and this Goverment has been most fortunate in

finding in General Leung a man with both the will and the

power to organize counter-measures. General Leung has

collected a number of his clansmen and former soldiers, who

have been formed into a body of 100 special Police and 50

detectives under his personal control, with orders that they

are to concentrate upon the arrest of intimidators and persons engaged in political activities. It has become

known that this organization exists and means business,

with the result that the intimidator, who has no more

personal courage than the rest of his compatriots, has

discontinued his activities. I may mention that during the

past week a Chinese lecturer has been lecturing with some of General Leung's men, dressed as coolies, watching in the crowd, and large numbers of people have been listening with interest, without any sign of a hostile demonstration.

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I am informed too by the leading Chinese of

the Community that the provision for the flogging of intimidators, and my remarks in that connection at the meeting of the Legislative Council on the 9th July, have

had an excellent effect. This matter has formed the subject of telegraphic correspondence dated the 16th and

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17th July. The argument of force has great weight with the Chinese, more especially when it involves physical pain for the individual, and the threat of flogging has a most

salutary result, provided that the Chinese believe that the Government is in earnest. It has not yet been necessary

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to have recourse to this punishment.

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