CO129-590-13 Hong Kong dockyards- labour unrest 26-6-1941 - 11-7-1941 — Page 7

JOHN SWIRE & SONS LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,

TEMSELOAF, FEN, LONDON,

TELEPHONE.

JANSION HOUSE 3041.

NEW ADDRESS.

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28, CORNHILL, LONDON, E.C. 3.

Telephone No.: MANsion House 9067.

Telegrams: Temseloaf, Stock.

London, 26th June, 1941.

E.C3.

Dear Gent,

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Ihan had in colored retumed it to him

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Hong Kong Dockyards.

To give you a bit of atmosphere I enclose

a recent report on the labour problems at the Taikoo

Dockyard in Hong Kong which has just reached us. This

is our only copy, so please send it back to me. し

The Yards are very busy on new construction

for the Admiralty as well as with the repair work on

British tonnage and I have a sort of feeling that this

type of labour difficulty is probably due to Japanese

influences exerted via Canton.

!

Yours sincerely,

Khanon

C.E.J. Gent, Esq.,

The Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

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