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C.10070

13 MAY 1926

GOVERNMENT HOUSE*

HONGKONG 8th April, 1926.

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With reference to my telegrams of the 25th

of March and 7th of April copies of which are enclosed for

convenience of reference, I have the honour to transmit for

your consideration a copy of a letter, together with accounte

from the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hong Kong,

Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company, Ltd., (the Honourable Mr. P. H. Holyoak) on the subject of the losses sustained by the Company in maintaining a steamboat service between Hong Kong and Canton during the period of the strike and

boycott.

2.

I need scarcely emphasise further the great importance to the British Community in Shameen of the maintenance of this service during the past months; and

3.

I consider that the Company has a strong claim to compensat- ion from Imperial funds for the losses sustained by it.

The accounts have been examined by the Colonial Treasurer who reports that the loss is mainly due to the fact that owing to the boycott there has been no cargo beyond that of naval stores and provisions for Shameen the freight on which is negligible in comparison with the

cost

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.0.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&C.,

&C..

&c.