CO129-498-6 Canton boycott- conversation with Sung Tsz-man 7-1-1926 - 7-1-1926 — Page 5

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aside and not obstru ́t such negotiations

Chinese and British mercantile community might

like to initiate with the Strike Committee as

regards strike pay and compensation. Such negotiations had in fact been initiated by the recent mission of eight Chinese merchants from Hongkong to Canton, and they had completely

failed.

3.

I then proceeded to suggest to Mr. Sung that a much more hopeful line of negotiation

would be as follows:- It being recognised that

Hongkong and Canton are naturally in juxtaposition

and that, short of some convulsion of nature, they

must always be in juxtaposition, friendship and

intimate commercial association between the two

places is dictated to us by Nature herself. The

prosperity of either place is likely always to

increase with the prosperity of the other, and there are many projects of mutual interest which we might

combine to promote. The present Canton Government

being animated by nationalist and patriotic motives

is anxious to see the development of the Kuang-tung

Province. It has at present by force of arms established

its ascendency in the province, and it is now

setting about the task of suppressing brigandage

and piracy within its borders. Once law and order have been re-established the next step is to

encourage easy communication throughout the province.

The activities of the Strike Committee are, as a

fact, to-day impeding and curtailing the facilities

for sea-borne and water-borne communication in

Kuang-tung. They are also impeding through traffic over the Kowloon-Canton Railway. They are, therefore, injurious to the commercial interest both of Canton

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