CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 320

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(4) Value of human testimony has inevitably been diminished by lapse of time.

318 (5) The terms of settlement of the boycott would in any event have to be kept separate. It could not be agreed that the Commission should decide these terms in addition to responsibility for Shameen incident.

(6)

Anti-British agitation would be stimulated and kept in being throughout the period of the enquiry.

(7) It is quite clear that an unanimous finding in the British favour is out of the question and if Chinese member disagreed with the findings reached by majority the Bolsheviks would doubtless take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded to provoke another outburst of anti-British agitation.

(8) Finally existence of commission would be an embarrassment in the not impossible event of the present Goverment being overthrow by some hostile militarist or by internal disruption, eben since the fall of the Government would bring with it the termination of the boycott.

Cantonese have never mentioned before this proposal for an international enquiry which is quite new, No reference was made to it in my conversations with Sun Fo orSung T'zmaq or in the conversations which Fletcher, Kemp, brenan, Chow and Kotevall have had at various times with Cantonese officials It is certainly clear that public sentiment in Kwangtung is not responsible for the proposal, which I believe merely to

be a new device of Eugene Chen to save face.

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