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SECRET.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD &c.,
280 1929
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG 24th September, 1929.
Lly Lord,
In continuation of my secret despatch of
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the 7th of September, I have the honour to forward
the enclosed copy of a memorandum of my conversation
with Mr. J.K. Choy of the Chinese Ministry of
Railways as viewed by that gentleman himself.
need not go in detail into the discrepancies between
Mr. Choy's version and mine; but I think I should warn Your Lordship that, in the light of the other
events connected with Mr. Choy's visit, there is good
reason to think that Mr. Choy's version is not mere
guileless misunderstanding, but a deliberate attempt
to commit this Colony far beyond my intention, and
that its author has justified his description by
His Majesty's Minister as being "as plausible and as slippery as the rest of his kind".
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I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
&C.,
&c.
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Governor, &c.