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upon to do so and having adequate military force at its disposal, has not prevented these illegalities nor punished the guilty parties. On the contrary it publicly recognizes the Strike Committee as practically a Government Department and has given the help of its gunboats in picketing operations. Full responsibility for the illegalities committed by the Canton Strike Committee falls, therefore upon the Canton Government: and we consider that joint action by the Maritime Powers could unquestionably be justified on the ground of flagrant breach of treaty rights.
The Canton Government, although called
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ASSISTANCE TO ANTI-RED LEADERS.- There is little doubt in my opinion that disruptive elements are at work in Canton. Please see in this connection
the 4th paragraph of my secret despatch of the 14th January and the 3rd paragraph of my secret despatch of the 15th January As regards Sun Ch'uan-fang and Wu Pei-fu please see my secret despatches of the 25th January and the 2nd February. It is not likely that they will attack Kuang-tung until a settlement has been reached in northern China. On the subject of General Chiang Chieh-shih (Cheung Kai-shek) I refer you to the 3rd paragraph of my secret despatch of the 6th January? I have no authentic information
concerning him. While we are of the opinion that
the most satisfactory settlement of the present troubles would be that the anti-British boycott
should be broken either by Chinese forces from
another province or by the disruption of the present
Canton Government from within, we do not advise
helping any anti-Red leader with men or money. We are, however, in favour of assistance being given to
the Chinese Navy, if Admiral Li Ching-hsi will agree
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