CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 413

SECRET

Sir,

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HONGKONG.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

5th August, 1926.

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With reference to my secret despatch, dated the 28th July, 1925, on the subject of the boycott negotiations at Canton, I have the honour to forward the enclosed trans- lation of an article headed "China's hope in England in

the Sino-British negotiation", and published on the 23rd July in the Man Kwok Yat Po, which is the organ of the Canton Government.

2.

Thatever else may eventuate from these negotiations, two results have already been achieved, namely:-

(a) the Canton Government has definitely discarded the pretence that it is not concerned in the anti-British boy- cott as a principal, but can only appear in the role of "mediator" and

(b) all the terms of settlement previously suggested by the Canton Strike Committee and by Canton students (vide enclosures No. 7 in my confidential despatch of the 2nd October, 1925) have been completely thrown aside, as has also

been the demand for reinstatement of strikers. These terms

were not even brought up for discussion at the recent con-

ference.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant,

IGHT HONOURABLE

IEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.E.S. AMERY, K.P.,

&C..

&c.,

&c.

لأسفارها

Governor, &c.

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