CONFIDENTIAL(2).
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Peking No. 83.
Canton No.337.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 16th September, 1927.
Sir,
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Enclosure No.1.
With reference to my Confidential telegram of 5th September, 1927, concerning the Chinese Telegraph Office
in this Colony, I have the honour to report the events in
connection with the unauthorised assumption of the control
of the Office by the new Superintendent Er. Chen Chang-ying.
Mr. Chen arrived in the Colony about the
28 Oct
1927
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Enclosures 2 & 3.
Enclosure No.4.
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iddle of August and tendered his credentials (tre nslation
nclosed) through Sir S. S. Chow. These, it will be seen,
include an order from the Board of Communications, Peking,
dismissing Hr. Lau Cheuk Pan, the Superintendent actually
in charge.
3.
Recognition of Mr. Chen by this Government
was withheld pending a decision by the Canton Government concerning the proposed removal of the Office from British territory, to which (as reported in my telegram) General Li
Chai-sum finally failed to agree. I enclose copy of the
correspondence on the subject.
4.
On 1st September Mr. Chen without authority
from this Goverment entered the Office and assumed control.
A report by the Capte in Superintendent of Police on this
incident and the reinstatement on my instructions of Mír. Lau
is enclosed.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ZIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, .P.,
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