Enclosure No. I
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INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL LI FUK-LAM.
This morning (11th July) Sir R. Ho Tung telephoned to my Private Secretary that General Li Fuk-lam (****) was in Hong Kong and would like to see me. I arranged
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that he should call at Government House at 3 p.m.
At 3 p.m. General Li duly arrived at Government House accompanied by Mr. T'am Lai-ting ( t ).
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Sir R. Ho Tung introduced them to me and to Mr. Southorn
who was with me. We four then had an informal conver-
sation for about half-an-hour, during which tea was
served.
I explained to General Li my desire that real
friendship should be re-established between Hong Kong and Canton and pointed out that the first step would be suppression of piracy and brigandage in Kuang-tung.
There should also be an end of the vilification of
Hong Kong and Great Britain by the Canton newspapers;
and in this connection I drew his attention to a
scurrilous reference to the British Consul General at
Canton in the issue of the Man Kwok Yat Po of the 8th July. The constant interference with legitimate trade by boycotts and strike pickets was also, I said, a hindrance to good relations. We wished to see law and order prevail in Kuang-tung and Kuang-hsi and we had welcomed the action taken by the present Canton regime against Bolshevists and communists. I urged the establishment of a Chinese police station at Fan Lo Kong
in Bias Bay.
General Li reciprocated the wish that there should be friendship between Hong Kong and Canton, but he said
that the