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and the Lecretary of State, supported by the weapon held constantly in recerve that, unless the Government gives way, the Unofficial members
body. In this
will resign in a
manner he hopes to make
goverum!
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under the existing constitution eithe
ridiculous
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impossible, and (for
reasons which I need not specify) he is followed, since but Keswick went
official
on leave, by the other un-
onembers.
At a conference which
the Colonial Secretary had recently by my desire with the unofficial members on the subject of Your Lordship's despatch about Gaol accomodation, they all said that, innless the Secretary of State
gave way,
they
they would resign in a
body, and
they plainly intimated that this
would produce a difficulty which
it would be impracticable to overcome.
And for Whitehead observed that
he had counselled a
Similar Course
on the question of the military tribution,
"If my
Con-
and he added with emphasis, advice had been followed we
" should have made the Secretary of "tate?"
"Chimb down", and we should by now have
"had
a
different constitution,
and'
the same thing would have happened'
at
Singapore and in Ceylon?"
6. Now looking to the vast importance of Hongkong to the British Empire from
every