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Enclosure No. 8.
Canton,
December 19th, 1925.
Your Excellency,
In response to your very cordial letter of the 15th December, in which you suggested an informal exchange of views between responsible members of the two Governments in order to find a solution of the present situation, I wish to inform your Excellency that my Government has requested Mr. Tse Vung Soong, a Member of the Executive Committee of the Government, to call on Your E Excellency to ascertain and receive any suggestion you may have which would help in attaining the desired ends, and to exchange views thereon.
I hope Your Excellency will appreciate that the misunderstanding referred to in your letter is one into which large masses of people are in- volved on both sides, and that a broad view is there- fore necessary in order that the two Governments might be able to use their best efforts in the restoration of normalcy.
We look forward to further exchange of views upon the arrival of your representative referred to in your letter.
I ain,
His Excellency Cecil Clementi,
Hongkong.
Yours sincerely,
(sd) WONG CHING WEI
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