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trip the s.s. "Iungshan" was escorted by H.M.S. "Cicala". The valour of the aforesaid troops
proved unequal to the prospect of serious retal- iation and no further firing took place.
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I enclose two further reports of the result of the invitation to the Hong Kong press described in
paragraph 2 of my secret despatch of the 13th May.
The replacement of the author of the invitation by a
subordinate, in order that any inconvenient question might be burked and unfortunate statement repudiated,
is too typical of Chinese diplomatic methods to
require further comment.
3.
The matter of the demand on the steam-
launch "Tai Pang" (see paragraph 6 of my despatch of the 13th May) appears to have closed with Mr. Brenan's
representations. The District Officer, Mr. J.A. Fraser with the kind assistance of Colonel F. Hayley Bell,
Commissioner of Chinese Customs for the "Kowloon"
district, endeavoured to get into personal touch with the author of the demand (Mr. P'ang Ching-hin) at his
headquarters in Bias Bay but found Mr. P'ang absent in Hong Kong. Mr. Fraser, however, established
friendly relations with the Chinese District Inspector of Police at Nam 0 (on the Mirs Bay shore of the
Peninsula separating that bay from Bias Bay) and was
given to understand that the position was realized
and the demand would not be repeated.
launch has called at Tip Fuk without molestation.
4. My hopes for the resumption of through
traffic on the Kowloon-Canton Railway have only
partially been realized, the damage to the locomotives
seized by the Communist railway staff having left the
Since then the
Chinese