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To:
Sir,
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Inspector-General of Foreign Affairs, Canton
H.M. Consul-General, Canton
23rd March, 1934.
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With reference to the proposal of the Preparatory Committee of the Chinese Seamen Union to open a branch at Hong Kong, I have the honour to refer to my letter of the 12th February in which I transmitted an order from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instructing me to explain
to the Hong Kong Government and to ask the latter to afford protection, as is on record.
I am now in receipt of a further order from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hastening the matter. I have therefore the honour to write you accordingly, and to request that I may be favoured with the reply of the Hong Kong Government on this matter.
I have etc. etc.
Kan Chieh hou
Inspector-General.