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JE
23 JAN 1028
OFFICE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 22nd December, 1927.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
30016/27 of your confidential despatch of 18th October, 1927,
stenclosing a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office and
requesting to be furnished with a report on the allegations in the memorandum by Lieutenant Commander C. Faure, R.N.,
referred to therein.
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2.
In reply I enclose for your information extracts from minutes written in April last by Mr. E.R. Hallifax,
C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Mr. T.H. King, Director of Criminal Intelligence, for whose views on
the memorandum I asked on its first receipt from His Lajesty's Consul-General, Canton.
3.
I would add that the matter of the Chi Kung T'ong (k'à $) referred to in Mr. Hallifax's minute was carefully considered in Executive Council which directed that
the promoters of the T'ong should be warned that the
organisation of political cliques for interference in Chinese
affairs could not be tolerated in this Colony, and that
persistence on their part would result in their having to
forego its hospitality. The promoters thereupon obediently
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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