DRAFT.
My dear Peel,
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27th January, 1931.
I have been intending to write
to you for some time in connection
SIR W. PEEL, K.C.M.G.,K.B.E.
with the despatches which are periodically
sent to us by your Government relative
to the situation in China, copies of
which are sent to Canton, Peking and
Singapore. The last of these despatches
that I have seen is one dated 6th
August, 1930 and signed by you.
The reason I am writing is that
I notice that occasionally these
despatches deal almost entirely with the
situation in China, and are not directly
concerned with any effect this situation
has on Hong Kong, which is all we are
concerned with, and I think there have
been occasions in the past when the Foreign
Office and the Minister at Peking have been
inclined to take the view that we are
rather butting into their business, and
that