CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 222

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with a view to ascertaining the identity of those who have been participating and the extent to which each was a willing agent. It is probable that many of them were drawn into the movement by pecuniary inducements, for I am informed that nearly every Indian watchman in Canton is drawing 60 cents a day from the Strike Committee over and above his regular watchman's pay. The leading spirits appear to be dissolute adventurers for which reason I doubt if it was ever seriously intended to utilise them as agents for the dissemination

All that is known about them of Bolshevik propaganda.

is that they wore strikers' badges, took part in

The two chief processions and carried flags. malcontents at the present time are Sarwar Singh and Ganesha Singh. From what I have heard I am inclined to think that they act as interpreters and advisers in all

Two or three matters in which Indians are concerned. Sikhs have been deported to India for joining the strikers. Others have made their way to Shanghai

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or have been traced by the Shanghai Police. reason for their departure to Shanghai is uncertain. That they are sent as agents by the Strike Committee is of course a possibility, but the real explanation may be that they became alarmed when they realised that Punjabi Muhammadans had been enrolled to take the place of the Chinese Police who had deserted their posts at Shameen. I shall of course make further inquiries

at Shanghai.

As all these men were, as far as I can make out, actually present in Canton when the boycott was first enforced I do not consider that their actions are

symptomatic of any particular unrest among Indian

residents of Hong Kong. Surrounded by an anti- foreign

atmosphere the Sikh watchman would nothave been himself

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