CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 457

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might appear comparatively trifling, a very important

principle was at stake. If once the Chinese were Allow-

ed to feel that they could reduce the foreign community

to submission at any moment they chose by the simple

expedient of withdrawing their employees, the experi-

ment was certain to be repeated indefinitely, not only

in Canton but elsewhere in Ching, whenever it was de-

sired to gain a point. Under such conditiona the life

of foreigners in China could very soon be made intole-

rable and the treaties would not be worth the paper on

which they were written.

It is clear that no resistance could have been

offered had not the community, generally speaking,

solidly supported the stand taken by my French colleague

and myself and by the two ¡unicipal Councils. The rate.

payers of all nationalities in the British Concession at

the meeting on June 30th had almost unanimously approved

the new traffic and pass regulatims which formed the

ostensible point at iamus, and they adhered to this

attitude when the Shameen employees were ordered out.

To the community as a whole therefore belongs the credit

for whatever measure of success may have been achieved.

It should however be added that the head offices in

3hanghai or Hongkong of the various firms and companies

represented in Shaneen gave in most cases a free hand

to their local ¡anagers or gents, without which of

course the latter would have been compelled to give

way.

Kore particularly however is recognition due to