Copy.
Enclosure No. 2.
161
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No.349.
Copies to:-
Colonial Office. Peking No. 86
Government House,
Hong Kong, 1st October, 1927.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.536 of 26th September and to thank you for
your efforts on behalf of this Government in the matter of
the garrison of Chinese Shataukok (l). I trust I am
not wrong in finding good augury for their success in the
prompt and re som ble mature of the reply from the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs.
2.
I regret, however, that I must take exception
to the interpretation you seek to place on the incidents at
Bias Bay reported to the Colonial Office in y Secret despatch of 15th September. Long Fuk-chi (£) is certainly an adherent of Ch'en Chiung-wing (A) and,
(陳炯明) like his chief and many others, a refuges in Hong Kong from
one of the political revulsions that have swept and continue
to sweep over Kuang-tung. So far as I an aware, however,
the Cantonese Authorities have never placed this man on
their list of persone ingrethe, whose expulsion fran
ilong Kong they desire; and, if his participation in the
recent outbreak at Bius Bay is to some extent an abuse of
the sanctuary he enjoys, it cannot properly be described as
banditry or brigandage, and it must on the other hand be
remembered that his retention of Sha U Ch'ung (1) ì) on
His Brita mic Majesty's Consul-General,
the
CANTON.