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Foreign Affairs.
Besides sending letters for the information of
others, we find it necessary to send you this letter in the
hope that you will attend to the matter and reply.
"Enquiries show that Commissioner KONG was dismissed
long ago but up to the present he has not handed over charge
of the office. He has ventured to rely upon the power of
the foreigners to aet at defiance the orders of our Government.
This is unlawful. We now call upon you, the Commissioner
of the Telegraphs Administration in Kwangtung, immediately to
instruct KONG SIU LUI to hand over charge of the office
without further delay in compliance with the previous telegram,
so that he may not be severely punished. You are also to send
in a report for consideration on what you may have done.
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On receipt of the above, we the Kwangtung Telegraphs
Bureau, have made enquiry and find that, as is on record, we
informed you accordingly when we received the telegram of the
15th from the Ministry of Communications. As is necessary
we now further instruct you to hand over charge of the office
on this very day without further delay so that you may not be
liable to severe punishment. You are also required to send
in a report for forwarding to the Ministry on what you have
done in handing over the charge of your office.
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