CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 227

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Dear Mr. Petrie,

I have spent a considerable portion of my

time here endeavouring to ascertain the extent to which Indians were implicated in the anti-British

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demonstrations at Canton, but hitherto I have made little progress. In all, about a dozen Punjabis (two Muhammadane, the rest Sikhs) have come from Canton to Shanghai since the institution of the boycott. Nearly

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all of them have been located and the majority I have interrogated personally. The ir statements throw no fresh light on events at Canton; in fact, I find difficulty even in securing confirmation of my previous information. Either the reports which I received previously were exaggerated, or all concerned were agreed to screen one another. Enquiries will continue, and on my return from Peking I trust that I shall be in sposition to supplement my previous report.

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Since the Punjabis arrived from Canton their

behaviour has been perfectly normal. There is no reason whatever to suppose that any of them are being utilised to spread Bolshevik propaganda in Shanghai.

Most of them come here to get work.

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2. In my search for material which might indicate that the local Sikhs have come under Bolshevik

influence I have been entirely unsuccessful. At the

time of the riots and the subsequent agitation the

Indian element was probably inclined to sympathise with

the Chinese, but there was no open expression of sympathy. Mr. Beatty, the officer in charge of Sikh

police who deals with confidential enquiries concerning

Sikhs

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