CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927 — Page 126

Enclosure No. 6.

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Extracts.

CANTON: EVENTS AND CURRENT RUMOURS: 12TH JANUARY, 1927.

The Political Propaganda Department in the Rear called a

meeting yesterday, the 11th, to formulate a resolution that the

movement against the "British Massacre Affair in Hankow" will

take place in Canton for a week from the 15th instant. In the

meantime a telegram was despatched to the British Labour Union

Executive Committee in London requesting the British Labour

Party to urge the British Conservative Party's Government to

withdraw its troops and gunboats from China, hand over all the

Concessions to China, and abrogate all the unequal treaties. The message points out that the recent tragic incidents done by

the British in Hankow and in Kiukiang and the Massacre in

danhsien and the arrests of Kuomintang members in Tientsin, all

show that the British Conservative Government is plainly

intending to break up the Chinese Nationalist Movement. In

conclusion it is stated that the Chinese people earnestly hope

that the western oppressed brothers will combine together with the eastern oppressed nations to effort a destruction of the International Imperialism and Capitalism.

CANTON: EVENTS AND CURRENT RUMOURS: 17th JANUARY, 1927.

Another protest meeting against the Hankow Incident was held yesterday at the Provincial Kuomintang Headquarters, attended by over thousand delegates from some 400 public organisations including the All-China Labour Union, Canton-Hong Kong Strike Comittee, Whampoa Military Academy, Peasants Unions, Local Labour Unions, Chambers of Commerce, and Educational Societies, etc. (The protest meeting on the 15th at the Chungshan University was attended generally by students.) A memorial service for Karl Liebnicht and Rosa Luxenbourg was held at the

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