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CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
Enclosure 10.5.
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Hongkong, 10th August, 1925.
Enclosure No.4.
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We have the honour to report that this afternoon the Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the Chairman of the Twenty-Four Merchants Guild called on us, and personally handed to us the enclosed copy of resolutions which were unanimously passed at special and confidential meetings held separately by the respective Executive Committees of these two Bodies this morning; and they asked us to convey the resolutions to the Goverment with the request that they be transmitted by telegraph to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the information
of the Home Government.
These two gentlemen further stated that their respective Committees particularly asked that the resolut- ions be not made public, either here or in England, in view of the fact that almost all the members of these two Bodies have relatives or business connections in the interior of China.
In forwarding these resolutions herewith we desire to add that we endorse the views and sentiments
expressed therein.
We have, &c.,
(Sd.) Chow Shou-son,
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R. H. Kotewall.
The Honourable
Sir Claud Severn, K.B.5., C.M.G., LL.D.,
Colonial Secretary,