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Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary
of State for the Colonies.
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Dated 3rd June, 1926.
(Received Colonial Office 5.45 a.m. 3rd June, 1926.)
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Priority.
Confidential.
Your telegram of lat June Shameen Service
claims by the companies do not include losses other
than on the Shameen Service. Recurrent charges which
the Company would have been compelled to meet if service
had not been continued have not been deducted from the
claim and would have averaged per month as follows
On the Honam September to December $2650 on the Fatshan
or substitute $2850 Lungshan January to present time
$3000 in this connection my despatch of 8th April
Confidential enclosure No. 3 it has been found impossible
for the present to carry out proposal to send the Ocean
steamer to Canton. Proposal was not made by Hong Kong
Canton Steamboat Company which owns one of the two daily
service steamere and is party chiefly interested in the recovery of the losses/proposal was made with a view to
assisting in reopening the direct ocean trade between
Canton and North China ports in British vessels and not
in any way in the interests of Hong Kong trade or daily
steamboat service. With reference to the newspaper
report referred to by you Kuomintang Canton issued
proclamation dated 31st May purporting to be signed by
Wangchingwei Huharmin Tamyenkai Kooyingfeng and C.C.The
of which first two Articles are as follows (i) The oil
monopoly will be abolished by the 15th June and the new
Oil Tax which will do no harm to the people will be created instead (ii) The Canton Hong Kong strike
requires
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