COFY.
(11/7.7.)
BRITISH LEGATION. PEKING.
29th October 1929.
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His Excellency
My dear Ülementi,
I have been thinking over your despatch Number
49 of September 27th about the Chinese Telegraph Offias
in Hong Kong and meanwhile have received a further son-
manidation from Dr. Yung on the subject, a tr∙nelation
of which is malostá.
I am moet anxious to get this petty affair
tidied up, but I honestly don't think there in mach chunac
of doing so if we continue on the present lines of argu-
ing what the chinese ought to do. For instance, if I
were to communiste the sense of your present despatah
to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I really do not
think it would help us in the least. Owing to the 300-
plic: tions resulting from your being in Hong Kong and sy
being in Peking sná Dr. Sung being in Xanking, added to
the fact that the latter is sa extremely busy and sQING»
what forgetful individual with most inadequate ataff and
Mir Cecil Clementi, K.G«X«G»,
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Governor,