F 2696
1 JUL 1925
Corrected Copy.
30th June
Jameslot Carnegie,
sir.
Lisbon
NO
198
King and the Jabinet,
695
The Pertu, vase ambassador asked me
to ressive him this morning.
The object of his visit ms to dia- auss the situation in China sad my recent Bets on the subject of the Fortu uése
will debt to this country. It evde be con-
venient that I should treat the two sub-
jesta in separate despatches.
As regards China, His Excellonay's anxietics were naturally centred in Magao, He had been instrusted by the Portuguese Government to inform me that the Governor of Maeno was in some apprenmsion of an attad- in force by Chinese upon the solony. The Portuguese from other plages in China had taken refuge in large mmbors in
This had Masao: so too had many Chinese,
so far involved no serious difficulties beyond entailing a system of rationing,
of maçao itself as the resourass|vore s'all and the dis- turbed state of the surrounding distriot restricted evm its normal supplies, but his Gov riment was under some «pprehension lest masses of Chinese should attack the settlement and overwhelm the small defend - ing forse (which consisted at presmit of three companies of infantry{ of which only one was composed of Fort›guese troops,
thoughy