CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 340

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to believe. I do not think that the Canton Government would allow a refusal of the proposed enquiry to put an end to the Conference. It seems to me more likely that, for reasons of their own, possibly on account of the military position in Hunan, the Canton delegates are playing for time, and also that for purposes of propaganda they wish to obtain our re- fusal.

9.

There can be little doubt that an immediate and categorical refusal of the demand for an enquiry, which (however impracticable) appears at first sight to be a reasonable proposal, would be used by the Canton Soviet and its Bolshevik advisers for world-wide anti-British propaganda, and that it might bring obloquy upon His Majesty's Government both at home and abroad. His Majesty's Government is better able than the Hong Kong Government to judge the importance of this danger: and, if His Majesty's Government decides to refuse the enquiry, the refusal should, I venture to think, be so worded as to make clear

(a) that the proposed enquiry is no solution of the boycott problem, because the Canton degates themselves intimated that the boycott would not be lifted until after the enquiry: (b) that no request has hitherto been made by the Chinese Government for an enquiry and that, although His Majesty's Government would have been very willing to agree to such an enquiry a year ago, had it then been asked for by the Chinese Government, it is not possible now after so long a lapse of time to make any genuine enquiry owing to the dispersal of the necessary witnesses and the decay in the value of human testimony: and

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that in no case could the proposed Commission of Enquiry be authorised by His Majesty's Government to decide terms for settling the boycott.

10.

Mr. Kemp and Mr. Hallifax think that it may perhaps

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