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RE. 14 AUG 22
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 28th June, 1922,
For 20132
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Enclosure 1.
Enclosure 2.
Sir,
With reference to Sir Edward Stubbs'
Confidential despatches of the 18th March and 12th April,
I have the honour to forward for your information the
attached copy of a despatch, with enclosures, which has
recently been addressed by His Majesty's Consul-General at
Canton to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.
2. I take this opportunity to enclose algo correspondence relating to the banishment from the Colony
of one Chan Ping-shang, President of the Seamen's Union, who during the course of the Seamen's Strike was sentenced at Canton to imprisonment for life for the murder of his wife and for a murderous attack upon a policeman. He was shortly afterwards released by order of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as mentioned in paragraph 10 of Dr. Jamieson's despatch to the Civil Governor, in the first enclosure to this despatch.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
Claudlevem
Officer Administering the Government.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,
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