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Hongkong, 18th January 1918.
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re Yaumati Ferry Service.
We have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yester-
day informing us that our clients will be heard on Monday the
21st instant at 11.30 a.m.
Will you be good enough to let us have a reply before
then to the question we asked in our letter to the Colonial
Secretary of the 4th December and again in our letter to you
of the 15th instant; that is to say: Whether any complaint
has been made against our clients in respect of the Ferry
Service since the outbreak of war and of the substance thereof,
We shall be glad if a reply at your earliest convenience.
We have the honour to be,
Ba/
Sir,
Your obedient Servants,
Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston,
A verbal reply
was
given by telephone that no complaints had been made. The mess
was
from the
essage
Alevetary
for Chinese Affairs.
The Hon.Mr.E.R.Hallifax,
Secretary for Chinese Affairs,