CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927 — Page 117

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and resolved to go on with the commemoration ceremony

inspite of the prohibition and the obstacles put in

their way by the foreigners.

On the following day the promoters sent four

representatives to see the self-styled Chinese Repre-

sentatives in Hong Kong, Chow Shou Son and K.H. Kotewall, requesting them to ask the Secretary for Chinese Affairs

to permit the demonstration and not to suppress it.

To our surprise, chow and Kotewall and such sycophants of foreigners refused to associate themselves with the project. So our representatives had to go themselves to see the secretary for chine se Affairs and explain

to him the reason for the Demonstration and ask him not

to suppress it.

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At the interview, the Secretary for thine se Affairs,

Hallifax, spoke in a very rough manner and used many

threats. Our representatives, however, were not so easily moved, and they were then told that a reply would not be given them until 9 o'clock on the next day. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs also warned them that all funeral essays and scrolls must be censored as well as all speeches and the hotograph of our President. Our representatives were loudly reprimanded when they attempted to argue so that they found themselves unable

to utter a single word.

At 9 a.m. on the 11th our representatives again went to see the Secretary for Chine se Affairs and the latter put before them 7 conditions which he compelled them to accept. The conditions were roughly as follows:- (1) Only the photograph that has been censored is allowed. (2) The time allowed for the Conference is one and a

half hours beginning from the ringing of a bell.

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