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with Hongkong was renuned, and the shipping com-

panies are ruming to pre-strike schedule and are

doing well. business is hampered by labour unrest.

which affects all nationalities and the Chingae

more than others, and there is a quantity of anti-

British propaganda, which has extraordinarily

little effect on the population, but so far as trade

in the greater part of the two kwang provinces is

concerned, the anti-british agitation has practical -

ly died out, and there have been no anti-British dis-

turbances or casos of assault, or personal insult of

british subjecta in Canton from that time to the

present day. This solid improvement in the local

bituation after sixteen months of boycott and

outrage is not mentioned in the Governor's report

and one finds instead a repetition of the scarcely veiled sneer at an opinion i once expressed in a

telegram to the effect that Ar. Chen was sincere

in trying to bring the boycott to an end. I do not

refer to the subsequent progress of the Chinese

nationalist movement in the worth and the excesses

to which it has given rise in other parts of the

country, as i trust I do not have to answer personal-

ly for that.

7.

Finally I would say that i do not wish to

make too much of a grievance about what are perhaps

petty