Capt, T. T. Laurenson, the Hoigkong Secretary of the China Coast Officers? Guild, is in receipt of mail from Home stating the action which Way taken by those to whom che addressed the telegram which read out to the recent public mass meeting held in the Theatre Royal at Hongkong, calling for prompt section by the Home Authoriti inst the Bolshevik faction in Canton.
Mr. W. E. Kirby, the Secretaty of the China Coast 'Officers' Guild, who is Home on holiday, reports that he immediately got into touch with his constituency's Member of Parliament (Mr. Lewis Lougher, a Conservative representing Cardiff) and that Mr. Lougher assured him that the Government was belie kept well informed and had, the matter well in hand. Copies of the telegram were sent to the organi tions named therein (Imper [chant Service Guild, the Mercantile Marine Service Association, and ithe Navigators and General insurance Company) and also to the: two leading daily newspapers in Wales where Mr. Kirby was staying at the time, these being the "Western Mail" and the ''South Wales Daily News." Both these papers subsequently commented on the needefor drastic action against the "Red" activities im Canton.
In forwarding the telegram' to the Association named above, Mr. Kirby commented:—"In view of the extreme gravity of the situation recorded by the above telegram, would solicit, on behalf of British mercantile interests in China' ahd Hongkong generally, the aid of Pi Viamentary representation through your organization, with a view..to some immediate and decisive action being adopted by the Impefial Government which would termifiate without further undue delay, ° the present position with its mendeing ests." effects to British trade and inter
Mr. W. J. Stokes, of the Marine Engineers' Guild of China, who was staying in London on holiday, sent a copy of the telegram to Marine Engineers Association, also to the "Times."
Manswat, Feng Ywhsiang, Tapan of Kansu and the Northwestern Frontier, hss recommended. "Mr. Sih Teh-pu as Civil Governor of Kansu
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