CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927 — Page 119

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also continue their bucinous

ithout anxiety and should

not again get excited for no good reason.

This is very

important.

This rakt notice.

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Comander Chan Ming Shu ( ).

Proclamation oy the Forcin Ministry.

At 2 p.m. on Janu ry 5th. the citizens held in the

Tsai bhang (3rd. Rond, know, an Anti-British

demonstration on account of the incident of the 3rd. Ju....ry.

At 12 noon they rched in companies to their place of

assembly via the British Concussion. 400,000 persons were

present at the meeting, nu Li Thox Hun, Rupro-

sentative of the Kuomintang Ornication in the special

Municipal area of How, presided.

Representative of the General 1. pour Union, was posted at

the spot as Supervisor.

Ing wild ( = 1/2 1⁄2)

Li L

The mooting was very indign.nt, and

despite the hevy rain, spouches vore mde, and 8 resolution

were passed, which they wired to all parts of C..ina.

TMJ

did not disperse until 5 p.m. vhun sover 1 processions sut

out in different directions. Tht any the British Concession

was as orderly se vor throughout the town: all workmen and

merchants had a half-holiday. The principal Englishmen 11

put up on board steamers in the River; but these ships which

should have left on the 4th., Were :11 hold up, as none in

the Customs would take the responsibility of examining and

passing them. The Kuomintang Flag and the National unsign

flow high over the former British Police Headquarters.

Some excitement prevailed in the City bufor the 5th., and

therefore Chen Kan (), Kuomintang Representative

specially sent by th Provisional Central Joint Conference

issued on the 5th. A notice, promising to afford proper

ti:,

AR a notice issued by the

protection. At th. Stune Foreign Minister, hugene Chen (2 te 1) was posted through-

out the British Concussion nu the Chinese city, which reads

as followe:

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