CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 424

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unions were induced to declaro a sympathetic strike on account of the Shanghai incident, startin, simultaneously at Hong Kong, uonton and Sto.... It

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s originally intended that this strike should

last throç days and that its final day, tho Zörd

Juno, would bu simalized by public procceLion Tô

Canton. But this procession resulted in the Makeo

(#) affair of the 3rd June, 1926, in comicct-

ion with ·hich it subsequently transpired thou tro

Assians hd been bribed to discharge their revel-

vors near the procession with the object of provoking a collision. The collision was duly provoked, and there is no room for doubt unt

Coutonosc troops were the first to opon fire. thonccfor.ard the massacro hich inaugurated the Canton Soviot at the bo,iming of June was forgotten

in the affray of the end of Juno; and the strike,

hich led buon intended as a caporary demonstration, changed its character and become a boycott. „von so, the boycott could not have 1.sted long but for the fact that it soon cii rded : lucrative livali- hood for the so-clled "striko-jickets“, ho de the business so remuncrative that entrance foss morc donded from all recruits to their ranks. ThosO strike pickets were really an orpizod band of

irates and briands, those acts of robbery ith violence, Toro connived at by the Gnton loverment, For example, they exacted a "squeeze" for, partits