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Senior Naval Officer, Neat River, Letter of Procceedinga No.5 dated 3rd September, 1924.

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The Bhangen Strike..

The course of the negotiations to settle t:la strike

jun to the date, 12th suguat, when the strike was "officially"

There is no doubt that the ettled has already been reported.

strike Leaders and such of the strikern as were able to get any information at all were deliberately mislead into thinking that the Falice would be reinstated and also that all the other

C.C. au “explained" terms had been mettled in their favour,

the agreed termo and the responsibility must reat on his shoulders; ho was aided and abetted by the Civil Governor, During the next three days attempted negotiations brought no result except an impertinent letter from the Foreign Co lulusion- er which the Consul Generals refused to accent.

As obstacles were always put in the way of the Consul Generals obtaining an interview with Dr. Sun I nuggested that I should take them down in my motorboat and if necessary demand an interview. A short note was sent to Sun stating the Consul Generals intention to call on him on the morning of August, 16th and I took them fown there on the forenoon of that day.

We found Dr. Sun very cordial and willing to help.

The Consul Generals explained the situation and said that as they failed to see where any possible “misunderstanding" could come in unless the terms had been misrepresented, they now asked Dr. Sun to carry out his undertaking and have all

They did not expect nim picketing and intimidation stopped.

to force unwilling men to return to Shameen but only that all

They also told him forcible prevention should be stopped. that C.C. Wu had proved so impossible to deal with that in future they did not intend to communicate through nim.

Dr. Sun replied that he would take immediate steps to end the strike and would put all the negotiations in the hands of Mr. Ma, the Director of the arsenal who is also

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