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Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 19th. September, 1917.
I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a letter which is addressed to you on behalf of the newly formed Constitutional Reform Association of Hongkong on the subject of two questions raised in the last two paragraphs of the letter from the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce forwarded in my Despatch No. 166 of the 10th, of May, 1917, viz.: (1) that this and other Crown Colonies should be re- -presented at any Conference of Representatives of the United Kingdom the Dominions and India or that the Crow Colonies should send representatives to England to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies on post-war trade policy; and (2) that this Colony should elect its own member of the Imperial Parliament if reconstituted under a scheme of Imperial Federa- -tion.
I did not comment on these suggestions in forwarding the Chamber's letter and I do not wish to do so now
2.
The Association whose letter I now forward was formed after the abortive Petition for greater representa-
-tion on the Executive and Legislative Councils forwarded in Jabo my Despatch No. 209 of the 26th. May, 1916. Few adherents to
the Association were, however, obtained in spite of a vigorous canvass until the agitation for the exclusion of Germone,
RIGHT HONDURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.,
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