CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927 — Page 72

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in Wuhan (Hankow) and deploring the defection to

Communism of Wong Ching-wai.

Enclo No. (6)

Enclo.No. 8 (c)

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Translation from the Kwok Man San Man, Canton,

of the 12th May, 1927, containing a manifesto by

Marshal Tseung to the Nationalist armies, drawing

the now curtomary contrast between the communism of

Hankow and the true revolutionary ideals of Nanking.

(c) Translation from the Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton,

of the 7th June, 1927, containing an account of certain proposals for protesting against the action of Japan in landing troops for the protection of her nationals in Shan-tung and her part in defeating the mutiny of General Kuo Sung-ling against his chief Marshal Chang Tso-lin and certain other matters. According to the latest reports the anti-Japanese feeling has crystallized into a definite plan for a boycott of Japanese goods commencing on the 1st July. Steps have been taken, as in the case of the anti- British boycott, to ascertain the stocks of "enemy goods held in Canton and elsewhere and there seems every indication that Japanese trade in China is about to enter on a period of serious obstruction.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant, ient humble servant,

Governor, &c.

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