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The Canton Foreign Office has communicated the information that, the Hongkong Government having repeatedly invited the Canton Government to negotiate on the Strike question as Principal and not as Mediator, the Canton Foreign Minister wrote to the Governor of Hongkong on June 5th that the Canton Government are ready to negotiate with the Hongkong Government regarding the Canton-Hongkong Strike and are prepared to appoint three plenipotentiaries delegates and the same number of delegates to be appointed by Hongkong.
On June 16th the British Consul-General informed the Canton Foreign inister that the Governor of Hongkong could not communicate direct with the Canton Minister owing to the British service rule and had requested the British Consul-General to reply that "the strike
In Hongkong has long been a thing of the past" but that he had appointed Kemp and Hallifax to negotiate with the Canton represent- atives the "settlement of the Anti-British boycott". The British Consul-General added that he had been authorized by the British Kinister at Peking to be a member of the delegation.
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on June 22nd the Canton Foreign Minister replied:-
"While it is obvious that the Strike still continues to be Such a considerable political and economic reality as to make
any denial of its existence appear at once evasive and futile, Hay Government
averse from any view of your reply that may lead to a fresh impasse and desirous that the issues involved shall be frankly and resolutely faced is prepared to authorize its delegates also to negotiate with the official representatives of the Hongkong Government or any other duly appointed representatives of the British Government regarding measures and means of settling the Anti-British Boycott which has been sustained by the Chinese people in Kwangtung for presisely a year".
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"If the forthcoming negotiations are to be undertaken seriously 'it is essential to clear up two points arising out of your reply. When handing that reply to me you explained that a rule of the "British Imperial Service debarred the Governor and Government of
Hongkong from direct communication with my Government or any other Government. As this rule seems to apply a fortiori to the representatives appointed by the Governor of Hongkong I am to ask you whether the representatives named in your despatch will negotiate as members of a purely Hongkong Delegation or as members of a British Imperial Delegation".
"The other point relates to the powers of the British delegates. In my Note to the Governor of Hongkong I stated that my Government as prepared to appoint three delegates with plenipotentiary powers and I indicated the wish of my Government that your delegates might be vested with equal powers. I am to repeat that any settlement reached by the delegates shall be subject to the asual ratification by the respective Governments".
CHINESE INFORMATION BUREAU.
65 Belgrave Road. S.V.1.
June 26th 1926.
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