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10th August, 1927.
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The tension at Canton appears to be increasing, though the threatened storm has not yet broken. It is stated that a second attempt was made on the life of General Li Chai-sum on the 30th July, this time by means of a mine laid in the usual course of his motor-launch; but there is some doubt whether this outrage may not be one of a series designed to intimidate passenger junks into compliance with the demands of pirate gangs. Piracy by means of electrically-controlled mines laid in the channels of the West River delta is the latest innovation of Chinese desperadoes. One enterprising gang actually stated, in a letter of intimidationz received by a local Chinese steam- ship company, that it employed a graduate of the School of Submarine Mining. Anyhow, there seems no doubt that an attempt was made on the 2nd August, to shoot Mr. Feng Tso-wan, who succeeded the ex- tremist Ch'an Fu-muk as Commissioner for Labour, and there has been a bomb outrage in a tea-house at Canton connected in some way with the reorgani-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.
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