Further Correspondence Preli-minery to Settlement Negotiation:
Canton, July 1.
The Bureau of Information of Foreign Affairs at Canton has fora the following to Teuter for publication:—The Foreign Office at Canton has 1ed_the following communique dated July 1:—In continuance of the correspondence relating to the strike and boycott negotiations, Mr. Brenan, the British Acting Consul-General, addressed the following letter to Mr, Eugene Chen, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs at Canton, dated June 25, Whole Question to be Considered "Replying to-your letter of June] 21, T have the honour to inform you that the British Delegation, which! has been appointed to nego arising Province, settlement of the anti-British
primarily represent the Hongkong Government, but that I have been made a member of the Delegation so that negotiations may include the anti-British boycott throughout the province together with any other cognate questions which the Canton Government may with to raise.
"The Hongkong Delegates will be sent with plenipotentiary powers with regard to matters relating to the colony and I, in addition to my' ordinary authority as Acting Consul-General, have been given by His Majesty's Government reasonable discretion in consultation with the Hongkong Delegates to negotiate an agreement. the British Consul-Geners "L have the honour to acknowledge: receipt of your letter of June 26 in reply to my note requesting inform-. ation as to the precise character and powers of your Delegation, understand your letter to mean that your Delegation as a whole will represent both H, B, Majesty's Gov- 4 ernment and the Government ofp Hongkong and be competent to' disuse: and-deal -with all aueapions Uikely to arise in the course of the negotiations, whose determination will be necessary for a mutually factory settlement of the anti-trouble as expressed in the Canton and Hongkong strike and in the anti-British boycott in this Province.
"In confirming my verbal ment that my Government has. appointed Messrs. 'T, V, Soong, K.P. Chen and myself as delegates with fall powers, I have to inform you that arrangements are being made, for the negotiations to begin on Jul 15 at the Foreign Office here,"= Reuter.
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