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From H.B.I. Consul-General, Canton.
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Governor, Hong Kong.
Dated 14th September, 1927.
P.A.6.
Addressed to Peking No. 81. Repeated to Foreign
Office No. 50, Shanghai for C. in 6., and Hong Kong.
Ly telegram No. 80.
The British shipping agents have just informed me that the principal importing guild has today wired to Shanghai to cease shipments for British steamers. The boycott
threat is therefore serious, and a decision regarding
counter measures should be taken without delay.
I have made strong verbal protest to the local authorities, stating that the water pickets will be suppressed as in September last, and hinting that the boycott might involve wider retaliatory action.
I think that the Japanese boycott is coming to an
end with the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, and the boycott organisation is turning its attention to us so as
not to be out of a job.
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