too
in face of my of Me
I show
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letter
2nd June, in which
my
readiness to
confine myself to the
Specific char
I made
Bowen
et Sir George.
against
as Governor of Hong Kong.
while I was
Military
Ce
There
I must say.
I am unable
to reconcili
your observation
upon me serious charges
formally
made upon.
"
the
with your
responsibility of "an offices of my standing statement that " you
in
any degree.
grave respon.
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share
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bility
the
which
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would rest upon
should publish my
the 17. May.
letter
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BEXLEY,
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his disgraceport conduct,
particularly
him the desertion
port as
the preten prever
foreign
Governo
under
to
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rig..
of
ex
of illness, in
mity and of
ace
stopped
of the large
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the garrison when
leave
of
absence
in conse
war will
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sequence of the expected
I
errrr
regard
the public
ad Sir George Bowen
light
in the same
I do
When it hears both sides. And the blame of making the scandal public.
witt
certainly not rest upon me.
I
In that
explained to you.
of
letter
that I when
had
at the time.
all the circumstances
were fresh in my mind..., written to Sir George Bowen. and emphasised with scorn and contempt
can prove before
tribunal that I
of the last to neake
any
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scandal and that I never
was
in one
one unitil Sir George Bowen persisted in threisting his disgraceful proceedings upon
on my
allow for