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REE 2 APR 18
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 24th. January, 1918.
Sir,
overnor's Confidential Despatch
of 5th. September, 19178965;17. cretory of State's Code Telegram of 3rd. November, 1917.757 cretary of State's Confidential
Despatch of 9th. November, 1917.
With reference to the correspondence
noted in the margin, I have the
honour to inform you that prior to
my departure on leave to Korea I
broached confidentially the subject
Sav 52975-17. of an amendment of the Peak Reservation Ordinace to the
Chinese Members of the Legislative Council sai to one or two other Chinese; and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs mention-
-ed the matter als confidentially at a meeting of the
District Watchmen's Committee. The Chinese Members of the
Legislative Council and the pure Chinese on the District
Watchmen's Committee were sympathetic. They did not dispute
the reasonableness of the proposal to safeguard the Ponk
District as a European Reservation, but at the same time they
showed that they were alive to difficulties in the way of
secur ing whole-hearted support of the proposed amendment of the law. Subsequent to my departure a meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce - a comparatively new and not influenti- -nl body
was held, in pursuance of summons under the regulations of the Institution, by members of the Eurasian
section of the Community, at which a resolution was passed
against any restrictive amendment of the law. Subsequently
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RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.,
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