Consul on June 22 as follows: "I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of June 16 in reply to my Note addressed to the Governor of Hongkong, in which expressed the readiness of my Government to enter into negoti tion with the Government of Hon kong regarding the Canton-Iongkong strike. While that the strike still cent such considerable political and economic reality as to make denial of its existence appear at once evasive and futile, my Government averse to form any vi of your reply that may lead to a fresh impasse and desirous that the sues involved shall be frankly and solutely faced—is prepared to auth-its delegates also to negotiate with the official representatives of the Hongkong Government or any other duly appointed representatives of the British Government regarding the manner and means of settling the—anti-British boycott which has been sustained by the Chinese people in Kuangtung for precisely a year, If the forthcoming negotiations
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