CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 164

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e ammunity. I understand that at Swatow, where the difficultie

vis à vis shipping are not so acute, there is in fa ot a warship

şermanently in part, and I trust that the Powers chiefly interested and having nationals here, Great Britain, irance,

America, Japan and Portugal, will if this situation arises

afr co-operate as to arrange a programme so that a warship of

one of them will be stationed permanently at Hoihow in rotation.

À visit aœuld be made to Pakhoi, if mcessary and desirable, nay,

once in ten days. I venture, with great respect, to urge that

steps should be taken immediately to obtain an agreement in

principle in order that there may be no delay if and when the

time CORSE.

6. Another matter of equal or perhaps even greater urgency

is the question of communications, With the disappearance of

British steamers, communication with Hongkong will be confined to

two ships per fortnight, French and Japɛnese, which however

unfortunately follow each other at an interval of two days,

leaving an interval of over ten days before the next sail, There

is no telegraph. I would submit very solemnly that this is a

situation fraught with grave danger to a community at the mercy

of people of the type which we know the Cantonese to be, In a

sudden emergency the moral effect of a Consul's protest is a

broken reed to rely on, and it is not oemfortable to feel that

there is no hope of asking for help or instructions for ten days

The and that a fortnight must slapse before help arrives.

nervous strain of such a situation was experienced last summer

and I cannot too strongly represent the increased danger at

the prosent time. I have accordingly requested His Excellency

the Naval Gemmander in Chief, to whom I am sending copy of this

despatch, to make the strongest possible representations to