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7874ember 15th 1917.
R 1'S FEB 18
the honour to acknowledpe your dispatch fo: 96 ₫
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ar 26th, trinmmitting copy of a despatch from the Gov-
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of Hougtong in the subject of the education of Chinese
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British influence in Chin and requesting my observa-
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the honour to state in reply that. I have read
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"the hongkong General Chamber of Commerce with sys-
and interest, and not a little disappointment. It is
ting to think that after our long occupation of liongkong
words our influence in ed ertional matters as little
on the mainland and that there, as in most other parts of
ine we are entirely solipsed in this respect by the Americans.
he quartion of the measures to be taken and the financial
to be given to promote the education of Chinese in China
reetion in one that has been engaging my atten-
w and I hope to be in a position before
lew on thin subject in a despetch.