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I have already commented,in my secret despatch
of the 21st January, on the speedy downfall of the anti- Communist Commissioner of Police in Canton, and on his
successor's declaration in the matter of fabour policy. What the labour policy of the Kuomintang is likely to be is illustrated in my confidential despatch of the 15th January to which I invite reference, and by the enclosed translation of a Chinese poster which, with many others of similar tenour, was plastered by Nationalist troops at Sham Chun over a train leaving for British Territory on the 7th February. Other posters were in English and to the following effect inter alia:-
"Down with British Imperialism".
"Make Hong Kong a desolate island".
"International revolution".
Similar posters are continually appearing in Sham Chun town and in Shataukok on both sides of the village street which forms the frontier, and I have asked His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton to protest most strongly to the Nationalist Authorities, who are very sensitive to the least hint of hostility to their regime emanating from Hong Kong, but have entirely failed to implement in deed the statements made by Mr. Eugene Ch'ên in his etter of the 16th September, 1926, (copy enclosed in my despatch No. 404 of the 24th September, 1926) that it is not the policy of the Canton Government to inflict such injury as it can upon Hong Kong or to develop the anti-British boycott throughout China. Protests have also been made locally to the military officials at Sham Chun and at Shataukok by the District Officer, Mr. J. A. Fraser. As usual these were met by denials
* C. 30001/27 [No. 24]: not printed. + No. C. 30001 / 27 [No. 23].
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