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Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
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HONGKONG.
7th September, 1926.
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I am very greatly obliged to you for
forwarding to me in your secret despatch of the
5th August a copy of Sir C. Eliot's Tokyo despatch No. 33 confidential of the 26th January, 1926,
together with the comments of Sir Austen Chamberlain
on my secret despatch of the 12th May, 1926. No
one is more keenly alive than I am to the difficulty
of forming a correct opinion of Chinese affairs from
a stationary observation post in Hong Kong; and
unfortunately I have owing to the force of circum-
stances been unable, since my return to China, to leave Hong Kong. I, therefore, appreciate very highly the opportunity of reading despatches about
Chinese affairs written from other points of view, and I specially value criticism and correction of
my own opnions on this subject. But, when I last served in Hong Kong, I was fortunate in being able to travel very extensively in China as well as in paying several visits to Japan; and the object of my secret despatch of the 12th May, which should be read with paragraph 21 of my secret despatch of the
27th
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THE RIGHT HONOU, MBLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1.0.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
20.,
&c.