CO129-498-5 Canton boycott- report on visit to Canton of representatives of the Hong Kong Chinese merchants... 6-1-1926 - 6-1-1926 — Page 19

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they are more than deserving punishment for their crime.

They long eagerly day and night for a settlement merely

because the continuation of the strike has c...sed much

The workmen have been in need

injury to their business,

not

of food, but they have, aided them with any contributions.

The Imperialists have constantly schemed to opress us,

but we have never heard that they ever joined with the

workmen to offer any resistance. On the contrary, they

are proposing peace negotiation every day. Let me ask

them if they are worth of speaking about peace negotiation.

If you confess that you are obedient subjects and tame

dogs of the English, you should be the objects of our

attack. If you still recognise that you are Chinese,

what face have you in coming to negotiate eace on behalf

of the murderers who have killed our brothers? You are

thinking that you are very proud of being a third party

that has come for a peace negotiation, but in reality

you are uncivilized illegitimates.

Yesterday there came the reb ls from Honkong who

had helped the English in their muraer of our fellow-

countrymen.

Announcement has already been made by the

people of our oo ntry that these 8 rebcls should be killed.

They now actually call themselves responsible representatives

for the Chinese merchants, and have come to Canton. Formerly

they always said that no living man should come neur Canton,

and that our goverment were constituted of Colmuniute and

pirates. They now realize that Hongkong will very soon

have to surrender to us, and therefore they have come under

the title of responsible representatives for Chinese

merchants.

Now let us ask the 8 rebels that since they

call themselves responsible representatives for Chinese

merchants, what the real nature of their responsibility is.