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Enclo. No. 3.
Sacl. 1o. 4.
2.
Mr. Chu
Ch
Subsequently, on the 4th of october, 1929,
-nien, who was on his way through
long song to take up the post of Chinese inister
to sweden, lunched with kr. southor, then administering the Government during my temporary absence, and after lunch brought up the question of the Chinese Telegraph Office in this colony. cnclose copy of a memorandum written by kr. Southorn,
giving an account or this conversation.
You will
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notice that Hr. Southor informed Er. Chu that
application by the Chinese Government for the
consent of this Government to the appointment of a
uperintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office in
Hong Kong must not be regarded as a purely formal matter, but that this Government had always requested
that a commercial man with a knowledge of business
should be appointed as Superintendent.
3.
Nothing further occurr, in connection
with this matter, until the 4th of Novelizer, 1929,
when kr. Kong siu-lui, the present superintendent of
this Telegraph Office, called to sec kr. 1.5.0. North,
then actin: as secretary for Chinese Affairs, and
showed him the attached letter, of which I enclose &
copy both in the original Chinese and in an English
translation, from the Director of Telegraph in Canton.
This letter is addressed to kr. kon as
"EX-Superintendent of the Chinese Telegraph Office
in Hong Kong. It proceeds to transcribe a telegram
sent by Mr. Su to the inistry of Communications,
stating that he had been advised in writing by the
Government of liong Kong not to take over charge of the
Telegraph