CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 319

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Not only is no satisfactory assurance that firing on British shipping will cease contained in this reply but it will be 300 observed that the note actually speaks of General Chiang as being at Wucheng which on September 14th at any rate was still in the hands of their opponents. This has doubtless been done for propagande purposes and the document strikes me as thoroughly disingenuous.

I have not yet received an official reply to Brennan's other note of September 10th (i... that concerning the attitude of the Canton Government towards Hong Kong the strikers and the boycott) I see however that Brennen describes it in his telegram of the 18th September as aggressive in tone but otherwise satisfactory But I am convinced that the attitude of Sun Fo and of most of his colleagues in the Canton Government was correctly represented by the speech to which reference was made. Chiang himself was present at the time and I am sure that it corresponds with the policy of Borodin who is still in Canton where he is a real danger to us.

In this connection see also Peking telegram to Foreign Office No. 16 of the 17th September in which he reports attempts by the Cantonese to introduce an anti-British boycott into the Hunan and Hankow areas. Canton Gazette and the Han Yat Po (both controlled by the Canton Government) continue to publish anti-British articles and to support the boycott by every means. In all these circumstances I believe that Eugene Chen's reply is nothing more than a thoroughly disingenuous device for securing delay and has been dictated solely by the fear of our taking action.

As to Chen's letter of September 18th of which the text has been telegraphed to the Foreign Office I feel that this is an obvious endeavour to secure for Canton with our tacit consent the proceeds of the Washington surtaxes. No reference is made to other Treaty Powers who would doubtless refuse. The consent

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