CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O.
366
37573
Rece
Rraf 27 NOV 12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 31st. October, 1912.
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Enclosure
Sir,
In continuation of my Confidential Despatch of
the 4th. instant, I have the honour to transmit copy of a semi- -official letter, with its enclosure, which I addressed to His Britamic Lajesty's Consul-General at Canton on the 9th. instant on the subject of the action in this Colony of certain emissaries from Canton to push the circulation in the Colony of the note issue of the Government of the Kwangtung Province. I also attach copy of a Memorandum which Mr. Jamieson addressed to the Governor- -General on the subject. To this no reply has, as far as I am aware, been received by the Consul-General. But the Comissioner of Police at Canton wrote to the Registrar-General a letter, copy enclosed, in which Tsau Lo and his actions are repudiated.
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This repudiation is of little value because telegrams, copy enclosed, were at the time exchanged (and publish- -ed in the Chinese newspapers here) between Tsau Lo and the Com- -missioner of Finance at Canton on this subject. Moreover the Governor-General himself seems to have telegraphed to Hongkong Merchants on this subject unless a telegram, copy enclosed, publish- -ed on the 9th. instant in the local press is a forgery. These
telegrams prove that Tsau Lo was not acting in a private capacity.
Furthermore I an informed that Tsau Lo is not out of office but is
still at Canton in Government employ. It is noteworthy that Mr.
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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Chan