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PORTUGUESE CONSULATE,
HONGKONG.
Sir.
Hongkong, 10th. January, 1919.
With reference to the proposals and remarkB
made by certain speakers yesterday at the public meeting con- vened by the Constitutional Reform Association of Hongkong, and which are reproduced in this morning's papers, I hasten to
inform your Government, so as to remove any wrong impression
such remarks may possibly have caused, that, as far as I am
aware, the Portuguese Community of this Colony has never ex-
-pressed any desire to be represented on the Legislative Council
nor to have any voice in the government of Hongkong.
question of the proposed Portuguese representation in the
Legislative Council was never submitted to the Portuguese
Community, and, as far as I know, no meeting was ever called
to discuss it, and I take it, therefore, that the proposal
came from the Constitutional Reform Association itself.
The
The interests of Portuguese subjects in
this Colony being identical with those of the British and
the subjects of other nationalities, and protected, as they
are, by Treaties and Conventions, it is felt that, however
great such interests may be, they can safely be left in the
hands of the British people themselves.
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Mon. Mr. A... Fletcher,
Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.
I have, etc.,
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E.V.M.R. de Sousa,
Consul for Portugal.