MINUTE OF INTERVIEW AT THE WAI CHIAO PU, HANKING,
ON FEBRUARY 13th, 1930.
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Present:
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Er Hsu Mo.
H.B.M. Minister and Mr Teichman
CHINESE TELEGRAPH OFFICE IN HONG KONG.
Sir Miles Lampson referred to the prolonged
controversy which there had been over this matter
and mentioned his anxiety to see it tidied up and
finished once and for all. But he had recently
been in Hong Kong himself and realised that the
Hong Kong Government had their side of the question to
consider. What they wanted was someone outside of
the political arena, a man who was neither a military
man nor a politician, in fact a technician, and an
ordinary telegraph man. The Hong Kong Government
did not like Mr Lu, the present appointee, because
he was a military man mixed up with local politics.
Dr Wang replied that it was reasonable that
they should not want a military man, but it was rather
difficult for the Chinese Government to accept the
principle that he should not be connected with politics.
In view of the important situation of Hong Kong vis-a-
vis Southern and Central China and the fact that a
system of party government existed, the man must neces-
sarily be in the confidence of the Government and to
that extent a party man.
Sir Miles Lampson said that he had endeavoured,
in his desire to get this vexed question tidied up and
out of the way, to explain the position in an Aide-
Memoire, of which he gave Dr Wang a summary verbally.
Dr Wang