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request the Admiralty to move Lieutenant Commander
Haslewood to another station, but on further con-
sideration, not wishing to damage Lieutenant
Commander Haslewood'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 Haslow000
and on his declining to desist from the campaign,
told him that he proposed to apply for him to be
transferred to another station. Nothing is known
here as to the circumstances of Lieutenant Commander
Haslewood's resignation which he presumably tendered
of his own free-will, but it is c
Clear that the
Governor had no intention of damaging his career,
If he chose to abandon that career himself rather than
relinquish political activities incompatible with
his official position, that is a matter for his own
conscience, but the Governor cannḍt be blamed, The
question whether he could be re-instated in the navy
is a matter for the Admiralty.]
(It may be mentioned with reference to the
incident referred to in paragraphs 2 4 of the article
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 undling homes on the
founa
recommendation, after careful enquiry, of the Very
Reverend Archdeacon Barnett. She had been refused
permission