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(8) that Dr Eitel, letter to Mr Johnson of 19 September, above referred to, was approved by May Palmer, the Governor's aide-de-Camp, whom he was to consult in the Governor's absence: but done by
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house also underwent a modification to the great of allowing it to an informed to utterly different but unexplained but fluid wisdom not desired
(9) that his E. P. Hennessy, on his return from Hong Kong on the 26th of October, approved of all that Dr Eitel had done, adding that he would make the lawsuit his own. (10) that he gave the explanations in good faith, believing it to be his duty as Governor to give them and that his subsequent avowal that he had wrongly so believed was dictated as denied by the Governor himself, although he (Dr Eitel) appears to have acquiesced for different reasons: a modification.
(11) that the Governor's description of the book underwent N.B. I do not think that this is of much importance on either side as long as it is admitted that the book contained obscene pictures: (12) that after his return to Hongkong, and under pressure from Lady Hennessy's father, the Governor's explanation of the reason for Mr Hayllar's exclusion from Government House was not denied in part only
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(13) that pressure was brought to bear upon the Governor to deny substance of the allegations against Mr Hayllar and to dismiss Dr Eitel and that finally step toward keeping the matter out of court, the Governor did (in a regretful and complimentary letter) accept Dr Eitel's resignation after twice refusing it, and did sign a paper relieving the material charge against Mr Hayllar. N.B. On this point Dr Eitel is unintentionally confirmed by Mr Johnson who, in his letter to the acting Colonial Secretary of the 7th of December, says that since the 25th of October he had seen two letters from the Governor declaring Dr Eitel's statements the