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his attention and that he was already casting about in his mind how they might best be met. I suggested the possibility and perhaps the expediency of their naming one of their own Foreign Employees for the first Consul as more sure to avoid transgressing and passing the proper line in the discharge of his duties and so preparing way for a Chinese official when experience could have been gained, and he seemed disposed to agree with me as to the policy of such a course.
In referring back on the second day to the relations with Kowloon and Commandant Pany he insisted much upon the necessity of his being duly informed of all that took place between him or the local Authorities and the Colonial Officers and I gave him the impression that he either had some cause of distrust of the Commandant Pany or of his going beyond his orders or otherwise involving the Government in trouble. I did not at the time clearly understand his meaning, but on receiving from Mr. Mayers the Supplementary Report which had not been put in my hands until after my interview, the whole of what had passed became intelligible enough.
I took occasion to speak to the Vice Roy on a third subject, to which