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request the Admiralty to move Lieutenant Commender
Haslewood to another station, but on further con- sideration, not wianing to damage Lieutenant Commander Halewood's professional prospects, he
wrote privately to the Commodore, suggesting that
he should endeavour to prevent an officer holding
His Majesty's commission from countenancing offensive
attacks on the Chinese community. Apparently the
Commodore spoke to Lieutenant Commander Haslewood
and on his declining to desist from the dampaign,
told him that he proposed to apply for him to bu
transferred to another station. Nothing is known
here as to the circumstances of Lieutenant Commander
Haslewood's resignation which ne presumably tendered
of his own free-will, but it is clear that the
Governor nad no intention of damaging his career.
If he onose to abandon that career himself rather than
relinquish political activities incompatible with his official position, that is a matter for his ownL
conscience, but the Governor cannot be blamed. The
question whether he could be re-instated in tûs navy
is a matter for the Admiralty,
(It may be mentioned with reference to the
incident referred to in paragraphs 2 4 of the articla
that in November 1919 Mrs. Haslewood made a formal
complaint to the Police that a child was being cruelly
illtreated in a Chinese house near her residence.
Investigation showed that the child had been adopted
from one of the ex-German foundling homes on the
recommendation, after careful enquiry, of the Very
Reverend Archdeacon Barnett. She had been refused
permission