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Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canton, to H.M. Consul-General,
dated September 16th, 1926.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 10th instant in which you ask for a reply concerning a speech of Mayor Sun published in the Min Kuo Jih Pao of August 27th.
On receipt of your letter I sent a copy to Mayor Sun for his consideration and am now awaiting his reply, but in the meantime there are some points which I wish to mention to you. No matter whether what appeared in the paper was or was not the speech of Mr. Sun (this speech was probably a rejoinder to the statements in the speech of the Governor of Hong Kong concerning "robbers and pirates'), even if Mr. Sun actually did make these statements, they are, as is quite obvious, only an expression of his personal opinions.
Regarding the remarks in the third paragraph of your letter, our Nationalist Government can on no account admit the right of the Hong Kong Government to make these officious enquiries. With a view to avoiding misunderstandings in present cir- cumstances I will reply to your questions that the answer is in the negative, and I have the honour to request that you will take note and inform the Governor of Hong Kong.
I have, &c.,
CH'EN YU-JEN.