Peking is previously informed" of contemplated British action in Kuangtung and that such action would be purely a local demonstra tion with a view to protecting British Treaty rights, and the trading and shipping ' interests Hongkong in South China.
They point out that in 1914 when war broke out in defence of Belgian treaty rights, Hongkong centributed generously to Britain in men and money, and the Colony now expects the Motherland to secure British treaty rights, which involve vital interests of "Hongkong in South China, and a breach of which is not erly ruinous to Britich, Chinese and other merchants Hongkong and Canton, but alto paralyses Britich shipping in the inten delta and on the China coast, and British export trade te inflicting several millions sterling of losses.
Resolute Dealing with Reds the Only Way The British Government's action intensifies the difficulty of intervention in Canton, and meanwhile that city is steadily importing men and munitions of war from Viedivostok with anti-British por-potes. It ix hopeless to expect the Canton anti-Reds to succeed, with= out British assistance, in expelling those Cantonese usurying the euthorities, and who are backed by Bolshevik commanders, advisers, machine guns and mercy.
British inaction in South China is misconstrued by the Chinese for weakness, and rot for conciliation, and seriously damages British pres tige—Revter's Pacific Service.
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