CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927 — Page 115

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SECRET.

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Canton No. 158

Peking No. 38

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG.

23rd April, 1927.

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With reference to the fourth and fifth

paragraphs of my secret despatch of the 14th April and in continuation of my secret despatch of yesterday's date I have the honour to enclose minutes of a meeting held at Government House on the 20th April with the Directors of the Hong Kong,

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Canton and Macat Steamboat Company, upon whom I

pressed the view that, as the Canton Government was at last taking drastic action to destroy the tyranny of bolshevized labour unions in Kuang-tung, the time was most opportune for the Company to rid

itself of the domination of the Canton Seamen's

Union, the leaders of which now appear to be in open conflict with the new régime at Canton.

You will remember that at the outbreak

of the general strike in Hong Kong the Canton Seamen's Union played a leading part, So Shiu- cheng, the then Chairman of its Hong Kong branch, becoming Chairman also of the so-called "Hong Kong-Canton Strike Committee" with headquarters established at Canton; but, although the vessels

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

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&c.,

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