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 65

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No. 4.

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Sir,

Government House,

Hongkong, 6th January, 1926.

Sus Ein.

I have the honour to forward for your

information certain extracts from Chinese newspapers which illustrate the increasingly abusive tone of the Canton Presa with each steps nearer to a settlement of the present

troubles wit.. the Canton Government.

2.

The Hongkong Government has for some time insisted that rencour and recrimination should be kept out of the Press: and it is surprising to find in the Kwong Chau en Kwok Yat 20 (a paper credited with being the official organ of the Kwok lian Tong in Canton) an article of nature so violent as that to which reference is made,

professing at a moment when the Canton Government was NOT its

anxiety for a settlement through the medium of that very deletion whose members the newspaper seeks to condem

to death for their efforts.

5.

I have therefore to request you to be good enough to enter with the Centon Government a protest against the licence permitted to their ress: licance which has the effect of a sting & doubt on their sincerity

and on the genuine nature of their professions for an

early setɩlament.

I have the honour to be,

fir,

Your most obedient servɛnt,

His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,

CANTO N.

(Sd) C. CLEMENTI,

Governor, &c.