CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927 — Page 133

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No14

REOEIVEL

28 NOV 1927,

COL. OFFICE

50001

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

131

Sir,

HONGKONG.

26th October, 1927.

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During the past fortnight Canton has

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experienced yet another of those swift counter-

swings of the political pendulum which are so

common a feature of present-day China. The

period opened briously. On the 14th October

the Seamen's Union, true to its character as a

great political engine, indicated an unmistakable

shifting of power towards the Left. A meeting of

all members was summoned in a way calculated to

cause the maxim inconvenience to the Union's

old victims, the river-stemer companies. It is

not clear whether the

personal work of engements were the

the Union

imion's former chief, Ho Loi,

whose flight on the occasion of the anti-communist

coup of last April was recorded in paragraph 8

of the Governor's secret despatch of the 1st June?

But his name was freely used in the matter and

the result left no doubt that the extremist

section were of the opinion that the arrival of General Cheung Fat-fui as opening a new era of labour misrule. At the close of the meeting a

mob of

T RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTUMANT COLONEL 1.C.M.C. AVERY, H.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.