Enclosure No. 2.
Government House,
Hong Kong,
3rd May, 1928.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 161, dated 26th April, 1928, covering a communication from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Canton, on the subject of the appointment of a Superintend- ent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong.
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In reply I have to request you to be good enough to remind Mr. Chu Chao-hsin that the arrangement made at the Conference in Canton on the 10th March was that I was prepared to consider nomination by the Canton Government of a Commercial Agent to take charge of the Chinese Tele- graph Office in Hong Kong, on the condition (among other
conditions) that the nominee should be in fact a merchant and not an official. The English title for the Superin- tendent which I suggested at the conference "Commercial Agent in charge of the Chinese Telegraph Office in Hong Kong" embodied this essential provision, and it has consistently been made clear in all later correspondence that I am not prepared to carry the concession any further.
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,
CANTON.