CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 337

Cu

JOY

R

09 uvad ei* * -PRINT ALES

iog 1:

1.

TO】 YL

Vidus

1.5 to nighe

[b160

2}

πί

ai dowody th

8

•

↓

In 10 Total

fox wo; LIK

情

ZÁSTON BET

920 [Lo [fle s

[Itu p. n. von ga sa suri 10 (1

to obstust

4

+ 335

an enquiry is quite new and appears to have arisen almost fortuitously as a by-product of the Conference. No demand for an enquiry was made in Canton thirteen months ago at the time of the Shakee-Shameen episode. No such suggestion was ever made in the conversations which I had in Hongkong with Mr. Sung Tez-man and lir. Sun Fo, which Mr. Fletcher, and later Mr. Kemp,had with Mr. C. C. Wu and other Chinese officials at Canton, which Sir Shou-son Chow and Dr. Kotewall had with Mr. Fu Peng-sheung at Macao, or in the interviews between Mr. Brenan and Mr. Eugene Ch'on himself prior to the Confer

erence. No such proposal has been put forward heretofore in the Canton newspapers, and it is quite certain that this demand is not the result of popular sentiment in Kuang-tung. I believe it to be a face-saving formula newly devised by Mr. Eugene Ch'en and thought of by him since the conference began. It is not, of course, a serious con- tribution towards a solution of the boycott problem, but it is an effort to impale us on the horns of a dilemma, acceptance and refusal of the proposed enquiry being alike difficult and perhaps dangerous.

The objections to acceptance are obvious. (a) A solution of the boycott problem would be indefinitely postponed, for the Canton delegates made it quite clear that the boycott would not be removed until the enquiry

was over.

(b) The consent of France and of one nation not involved in the dispute must first be obtained in order to constitute the proposed Commission of Enquiry; and other Powers would have to agree to evidence being given by their Consuls and

nationals. The Canton delegates, no doubt at the instance

of their Bolshevik advisers whose policy is to deal with

the European Powers in China piecemeal, concentrating the

first

7.

Ayu ysq (4)

(dima (0)

*TO

201 *

're outline

» Ma[ (c)

i

*.170.'>[[no şi I

w! IIN.

-doelle Lots -

Ja motor vo od zalen Kiw :

MOST DETĖ