CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929 — Page 17

afterwards found in the list of Commissars of the

so a lled Canton Soviet of December 1927. Lne of these

Do Shiu Ching was also the head of the Anti British

Boycott Committee. The individuals holding office in the union have changed and no longer pay lip service

to the cause of communism; but the organization still

retains its political character and its anti-foreign

and particularly anti-British bias. Although this

union is not permitted to establish itself in fong Kong,

it is not the case that seamen there are unrepresented.

In fact two Seamen's unions exist here and there is no

reason to suppose that the interests of the seamen

would be better served by the addition of a third.

3. ir Robert Ho Tung has shown me your letter

to him dated the 19th Sentember in which you ask him

one of the questions which you have asked me and my

present letter serves as a reply to your letter to

him also.

Yours sincerely,

($t).C. Clementi