also said that he had had an interview with His Excellency
the Governor of Hongkong which I subsequently ascertained
was not the
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In this connexion I have the honour to enclose copy
of a despatch from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong
enclosing a report by Mr. Lai shun Fu, interpreter in the
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, who apparently got in
touch with Mr. Brack in Hoagkong and accompanied him on
his visit to Canton unknown to the Colonial authorities.
5. I asked Mr. Frack what Chinese he was meeting in Canton
but he did not know any names and merely said that his
friends were arranging an interview that evening.
I
asked #r. Brack to get the visiting carde of the persons
present at the interview as I wanted to know who he was
meeting, which he promised to do, but when I saw Mr. Brack
again on the 3th the only name he could give ne use that
was
of Fr. hung Yuan-feng whom Fr. Frack evidently believed to
be connected with the 9th oute Army but who in fact is
attached to the Bureau for social ffair.
i
C. T gathered from "r. Erack that his neotiations had
not proceeded very far but he informed me that he was dining
with the Mayor of Canton that evening - I subsequently
ascertained that the dinner did not take place and that
he hoped to meet Marshal Chen Chi-tang.
7. #r. Brack called again on the 5th and asked if I
would give him a letter of introduction to Karshal Chen.
I had received your telegram 50.38 quoting the message from
the Prime Minister of Australia and this I brought to wr.
Frack's notice.
s I reported in my telegram 0.86, Mr. Frack professed
to be unable to understand why the telegram from the rime
Winister had been sent. He had never represented himself
to be an agent of the Australian Government but his visit
here was with the full knowledge and consent of the Minister
of