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Enclosure in Sir John Jordan's No. 419 of October 18, 1912.
1912.
Sir F. Piggott to Secretary of State for Foreign 84
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Sir:-
Affairs.
Peking,
October
1912 1912, 224
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, on Oc-
tober 14th, of a reply, dated 19th September, to my letter dated 9th August, on the subject of His Majesty's Minister's opposition to my appointment as Legal Adviser to the Chinese Government. By the irony of official language it was said to have come "under flying seal". I have the honour to think
that in a matter relating to an important and lucrative ap- pointment a gentleman who has occupied posts of distinction
under the Crown should have received more consideration and
courtesty.
2.
The reply itself amazes me, for in no single point with
which it deals is it based on the actual facts as they have
for some time existed, though it refers to some which belong
to a now remote past, and so far is out of date.
3. As I explained to Sir John Jordan and in my letter of
August 9th, I have never been in any sense of the words a candidate for the appointment; but as the despatch under
and moreover as the writer is reply assumes that I was,
pleased to use the word "hypothetical" in regard to it,
is necessary to re-state the facts of the
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The question of my becoming Legal Auviser arose out of a
conversation with Sir Kai Hokai in Hongkong in Karon last,
whi di was followed by a request from Dr. Wu Ting Fang for a
statement of my qualifications for such post. These were forwarded by him to the then Premier, Mr. Tang Shao Yi, the rumour was very soon after x circulated throughout the world that I had been appointed. When I first saw Sir J.
Jordan in Peking he informed that these rumours had no
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