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Foreign Office,
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195 December, 1923.
Some months ago a conversation took place between Sir W. Tyrrell and Sir G. Grindle regarding the position of the Governor of Hongkong, in the course of which it
was suggested that, as Sir R. Stubba apparently did not on certain important points see eye to eye with the policy of His Majesty's Government and of His Majesty's Minister at Peking, it might be desirable to take an early opportunity of transferring him.
I need not refer in detail to the matters which
The situation has
were discussed on that occasion.
now come to a head in consequence of the threat by Sun Yat-sen to seize the Customs at Canton in the event
His Grace
The Duke of Devonshire, K.G., P.C.,
etc.. etc..
etc.
of certain/
:
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