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page that the policy was "unofficially to support Chen Chiung
Ming in every way possible, short of active interference".
Even with the qualification "Hong Kong" must still be read
as "the Hong Kong Government"
3.
It is impossible to take seriously Lieutenant
Commander Faure's views on Piracy: he seems to have
swallowed whole the political views of his Canton informants,
and to have allowed all his deductions to be coloured by
them. Hong Kong apparently is directly and solely responsible for the existence of Bias Bay pirates, and in some strange
manner in no way supported by his own facts (for the "Hay"
consignment of arms was seized by Sun) for the arming of many
pirates in the Delta. An officer with such views, or rather
with sympathies which can lead to such obvious distortions
of his own facts, would hardly seem the right one to entrust
with the important duties of Intelligence Officer. I judge
of course from this one document alone: and give weight to the
statement of the Consul-General that it was hurriedly written.
But revision would be presumably only a matter of detail and
not of the main outlook; and it is therein that it seems to me
the danger lies.
"
But it still may be that the "Policy of Hong Kong
in connection with Chan Kwing ling, although not the policy
suggested by Lieutenant Commander Faure, is having a very
undesirable effect. The policy as I understand it is only that of granting him sanctuary: the general course of events during
the last few years has made us not unsympathetic with him, but
he is still here on sufferance only, and would forfeit the
claim to consideration if detected in using Hong Kong as a base
for political intrigue.
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