CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 313

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the situation both in China generally and in Canton in particu- lar, from their respective points of view, and concurred in the draft of a telegram which would be sent to Sir R. Macleay in- forming his of this faot.

Admiral Dreyer stated that the Commander-in-Chief consider- ed that if action were taken, Swatow as well as Shamsen would require to be evacuated, and suggested that a statement to this effect should be added in the telegram). This was done. Consideration of mesures short of a blockade.

Sir 0. Grindle said that he quite understood that a block- ade properly so-called was out of the question, but asked whe- ther the views expressed by the Committee of Imperial Defence would apply to measures short of a blockade. He had in mind the action against Chinese junks, as proposed by the Commodors, Hongkong, in his telegram of September 14th, namely, that all Chinese cargo junks in Canton harbour should be driven down river and refused admission to the port, and that all Chinese junk traffie and Chinese steamers to canton should be refused admittance to the port. If, without running the risk of inter- national complications, we could bring pressure to bear upon the Cantonese and nake ourselfes as objectionable to them as possible, we ought, if necessary, to do so, and we ought to have it clear in our own minda how far we could go in this direction.

The Secretary of State for the colonies was strongly of opinion

that, as the British authorities in Bengkong and Canton had ad- vised that certain action which we might take would probably

be masssssful, we ought to be ready to take 16.

Admiral Dreyer said that the view of the Commander-in-Chief,

as stated in a telegram of september 18th, was that the Com-

modore's suggestion to remove all sargo junks from Canton har-

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