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on without my being in any way consulted, and of the exis- tence of which I was in entire ignorance, would appear to be as follows. Sir Frederick Lugard by previous appoint-
ment made on March 24 an official call on the Governor
General. I was present thereat, as well as at the luncheon,
which took place immediately afterwards in the offices of the Head Quarters' Staff. When luncheon was over, and
while I was engaged in conversation with certain of the
Chiness officials, who were in attendance, His Excellency Chang and the Governor, together with the Acting Colonial Secretary and Mr Wei Han, suddenly withdraw, not reap-
pearing until noarly an hour later. On his return Sir
Froderick Lugard professed surprise that I had not accom-
panied him, at the same time explaining that he had only
been discussing genoralities.
The first outcome of these generalities was & para-
graph about the middle of May in the Chinese press stating
that an arrangement had been come to between the Provincial
and the Colonial Governments on the subject of extraditing
criminals. As Chinese newspapers are apt to be ill
informed
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