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28th October, 1925.
My dear Neill,
I must apologise for not answering
your letter of October 16th before now. As a matter
of fact I have had it on my table for over a week
intending to reply.
I have discussed what you told me with
the department here, pointing out that if there were any grounds for saying that, apart from the results of the recent situation in south China, we had lost prestige in Hong Kong we ought to enquire into the matter and see if anything could be done.
The view
held here is that any unfriendly and possibly somewhat contemptuoud attitude on the part of the Chinese in Hong Kong is only a quite recent development resulting from conditions in Canton and China generally for
which the Government is trying to find a remedy in extreme difficulties, and that no such feeling existai previously. I think the promise to find £3,000,000
sterling
·OL-GENERAL
BIR NETLL MALCOLM,K.0.B.,5.3.0.