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Canton No.
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Peking No.24.
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 19th March, 1927.
On the 2nd March Sir Miles Lampson
telegraphed to me from Peking that he felt we were giving a handle to the Chinese Nationalist
Government by allowing General Ch'an Kweng-meng
(陳炯明 ), their political opponent, to reside in Hong Kong, and he inquired whether in
the past it was not the fixed principle of the
Hong Kong Government that the political opponents
of whoever was in power at Canton should not be allowed to reside in this Colony, unless they abstained completely whilst here from all poli-
tical activities.
2.
The question raised by Sir M. Lampson is a very important one and I have given it most careful consideration, for any mistake in hand-
ling this matter might have seriously detrimental
effects upon Hong Kong. The question did not arise in any acute form until the overthrow of
the Manchu dynasty in 1911. Before then this Colony was undoubtedly used by Chinese from time
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
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