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it must be left to the former to continue the efforts

he was already making to get the boycott removed on

whatever linga ne tuought best and that there was no

alternative oven 17 the Canton Government failed to

fulfil their undertaking to stop the boycott.

successfully.

5. In the light of tais information regarding

the attitude of his Majesty's Government and their

instructions to me, which 13 omitted from his

Excellency's record, let us examine anew his com-

plaint, that I resumed conversations with air. Chen,

without consulting ilongkong, and suspended further

action by the British Navy. It may be recalled that

a3 the result of a requeat, which I had made, the

Navy were authorized on September 1st to drive the

strike pickets off the river, and this they did very

Moreover they actually went beyond

the instructions which I had received from home and

occupied wharves in the city previously used by

strike nickets. An I had initiated this movement,

I felt responsible for stopping it when its aim,

and that of His Majesty's Goverment, was achieved,

namely to force a resumption of the negotiations

for the termination of the boycott. The mere

chasing of picket boats would not by itself have

caused a cessation of the boycott, and to anyone

who knew the state of affairs in Canton the idea

is abaurd. There was no further action" which the

gunboats