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25th July that is till 11 d
11 days after the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
had been allowed access to them;
On the 25.
24.
of July & received
the official reply to my letters of the 16th and 21st which is
enclosed and marked P., and on the afternoon of the
following day appeared an elaborated apology to myself enclosed and marked Q. As this apology
was entirely unsought for me and I had had no communication with the
Editor it seems a strange coincidence that it should
appear in the paper on the Monday following my interview at Mountain Lodge on Saturday.
25. The attack made on me by the "Hongkong Daily Telegraph" and the singularity of the
circumstances in which it was involved not only caused much indignation among my immediate friends, but,
as may be well supposed, was the subject of general comment in the Colony.
I had regarded the interview I had with His Excellency as being of a
confidential character and I saw no reason for keeping
back from my friends the circumstances which His
Excellency thought fit to disclose. Naturally echoes of what had transpired were heard in
every part of the Community and it would
seem to have reached the Editor by some means.