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COL. OFFICE
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HONGKONG, 24th May, 1927.
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Sir,
During the week-end 14th to 16th May,
the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W.T. Southorn, was on a visit to Canton; and he happened to be in Mr. J.F. Brenan's office in Shameen on the morn- ing of the 16th May, when Mr. G.H. Madden, master of the British river steamer Lungshan owned by the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, called at the British Consulate and reported to the Consul General that the Lungshan had been fired at by a number of Chinese soldiers in uni- form, without any provocation, at 7 a.m. that morning, from the East or left bank of the river at a point slightly above the lighthouse marking the point of Dane Island, and not far from the Whampoa forts. Fortunately, there were no casual- ties but the ship was repeatedly struck by bullets, and about fifty rounds were fired at her. Brenan at once went into Canton City to see General
hir.
Li Chai-sum, the head of the new Cantonese regime.
He had to wait two hours before General Li, who was
out
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&C.,
&c.,
&c.
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