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this letter I have had no answer, nor do I consider it likely from what I have since heard that any will be received.
Not long ago there was, it appears, a partial sale of some of Kang Yu Wei's effects at his villa at Saltsjobaden where he has been living, to meet certain bills which he was unwilling or unable to pay. I telephoned again this morning to enquire whether any answer to my letter could be expected and was informed by a Swedish servant that Kang Yu Wei was not at home, that it was not known when he would be home, or whether he would return at all. I regret therefore that up to the present I have been unable to carry out your instructions in communicating to this elusive individual the instructions issued by His Majesty's Government in regard to him to the Colonial Authorities. I am inclined to think that Sir Rennell Rodd's supposition that Kang Yu Wei's funds are getting low is not improbably correct, and it may be that he had in reality already started for the Far East on his mission to replenish them.
It will be difficult to verify this.
I have &c.,
(Signed)
Herbert G. Dering.