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 68

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Will you be responsible for having askea Hongkong to send

soldiers to attack Canton? Will you be responsible for

having helped Channing Ming with arms to attack Kwong

Tung? Will you be responsible for having cused injury

the strike und keted as tame doge for foreignersy

you are responsible for all the so, then there are laws

of our country and we can only ask the Government to

execute them accordingly and have their bends hoisted up

to warn the people. II yoy are not responsible for

these offences, but have on y come for peace negotiation,

then you are Chinese, and piould help our brothers to

resist their enemies, so that the strikers can easily

come out victorious. You are not worth of speaking the

words "peace negotiation”.

If you claim to be obedient

subjects of the English and tam uoga of the imperialists,

then you aro accessoriew to the c:1000 00ziátted

should run away like ruts, even if the Government pardons

you, and have no face to have come to see us.