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Chinese pirates. Please see my telegrams of 6th December and 19th January and my secret despatch of the 20th January‡
11.
PRESSURE ON MOSCOW.- We do not think
that a permanent settlement can be reached unless the Bolsheviks are expelled from Canton. Would it be possible to repeat for this purpose the pressure exerted so effectively on Moscow in 1923 in connection with trawlers, etc? If so, this might solve the Kuang-tung difficulties without antagonising the Chinese and without resort to force. As to the present strength of the Russians in Kuang-tung please see my secret despatch of the 22nd January. I am also addressing you in a separate despatch on the subject of Bolshevik intrigue at Canton.
12.
CONCILIATION.- The Cantonese demands are set out in enclosure No. 7 of my predecessor's confidential despatch of the 2nd October. Please see also the fifth paragraph of Sir James Jamieson's telegram to the Foreign Office No. 5 of the 2nd February, which forms an enclosure in this despatch.
13.
The Foreign Office telegram asks:- "What objection is there to direct negotiations
between the Hongkong Government and the strikers?" My reply is that the Hongkong Government cannot negotiate in Canton with any but the Canton Government. The Canton Strike Committee, in so far as it is not composed of Canton workmen, with whom the Hongkong
has Government/no concern, is made up of former labourers
and
in Hongkong, who have left the Colony for its good, mis *
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