52711/28
Mr. Caine 13/4
Mr. Beckett
Mr. Ellis
Mr. Bottomley.
Sir E. J. Harding.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.'
Sir G.
Grindle 146
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Lord Lovat.
Mr. Amery.
HUNG KUNG
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Downing Street,
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Qto. for Sir G. Grindle's
Signature.
17
April, 1928.
My dear Wellesley,
Your letter No. F 489/43/10
(51)
DRAFT. for consideration
SIR VICTOR WELLESLEY,
of the 18th of February regarding
Lt.-Commander C.M.Faure's
Memorandum on Piracy in South China
came as somewhat of a surprise to
FOREIGN OFFICE.
us.
When we first read the Memo-
randum we understood it to make
certain allegations against the
policy of the Hong Kong Government
of
in which he writes tiny the towards Chen Chiung-ming, and it
of.
appeared from Mounsey's letter to
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No.40
Ellis of the lüth of vctober that
this was the view taken in the
Foreign office; and we invited the
Governor's observations on it in
order to give the Colonial Government
the