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Canton and Hongkong and I do not know what purpose the Canton Government had in sending him, unless it may be to ascertain whether last week's happenings in Canton have in any way modified the views of the Hongkong Government with respect to the boycott. There have been three noteworthy occurrences.
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In the first place Mr. Ch'an Kung-pok, so-called "Minister of Labour" at Canton, a member of the Canton Council of Government, and one of the three officials appointed by the Canton Government to negotiate with the Hongkong Government a settlement of the boycott, has resigned. He was an extremist and a strong supporter of the labour unions in their fight to control such institutions as the Canton Hospital. Mr. Brenan has it upon good authority that Mr. Ch'an Kung-pok has been forced to leave the Government and this seems to be a sign of increasing strength among the anti-communists in Canton.
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The second noteworthy incident an attack by strike pickets in Canton on Colonel Hayley Bell, the Commissioner of Customs, on the 22nd April. In a note to me Colonel Hayley Bell describes the affair thus:- I resisted personal search by the picket at the French bridge ( as I always do and always will). When grabbed I hit him and two then attacked me with sticks, two more coming from behind with carrying poles which they took from coolies. I was quite happy even so and had disposed of two; but after two blows on the head I could not see and fell back in the direction of the gate, where they dragged me in. I did quite as much damage as I received and I never fell nor did any one come to my assistance. In the end there were eight or ten at me and they were in each other's
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