CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 429

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Force is seized by strike pickets in the Sham-chun river. There was constant firing by strike pickets on sampons upproaching the nong Kong river-stemers at Canton; and at the end of August strike pickets fired on and seized in the Canton River a motor- launch belonging to Messrs Lillicrap and Banbury. Moreover, on the 3rd August, Conride Sun Fo (3), the yor of Canton and prominent member of the Canton Soviet, de speech from which it appeared that he at least is in full sympathy with the outrageous acts and still more outrageous cims of the Canton Strike Camittee. Thus it became increasingly clear that the Canton Government is either unable or unillin, to curb the piratical ctivities of the strike pickets; and in these circumstances his Majesty's Goverment decided that Il strike pickets must be swept off the Canton ternys by the British Navy. This

ctions successfully taken on the 4th September,

and thereupon the Canton Soviet at once shoved a marked desire to resume the negotiations for ending the boycott. General Tseung Kai-shek, it appears, sent peremptory orders from the front that this

should be done! und thero follared in rapid

succession three letters from Comrade ujono Ch'an.

In the first, dated 11th September, ho undertook

that the Canton Police Force ould patrol the Canton terys and prevent strike pickets from committing

further outragos float. In the second d-bod the

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