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Copies to H.B.M.Ambassador,Peking (36)
H.B.M.Consul-General, Canton (70)
Naval Commander-in-Chief. General Officer Commanding.
(10 47
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
24th September, 1936.
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Sir,
With reference to your telegram No.128 of the
14th September, 1936, authorising my recent informal visit to
Canton I have the honour to enclose a newspaper cutting from
the "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" of the 20th September current
which gives a generally adequate and accurate account of the
proceedings during my brief stay there. The warmth of the
welcome extended to myself and my wife exceeded my most
sanguine expectations and, as the informality of our visit
had been emphasised, the Guards of Honour and the Bands
came as a complete surprise not only to me but to Mr. H.
Phillips, the Consul-General. Of the latter's excellent
prearrangements, constant assistance and hospitality
throughout my stay I cannot speak too gratefully; the success
of the visit and its enjoyableness were due in a major degree
to him and to the remarkably friendly relations which he has
already formed with the officers of the new régime in Kwantung. I came away feeling that the atmosphere which had surrounded
every incident in our programme could not have been bettered; it was indeed friendly to the point of geniality, and the
personal touch which has been established will, I trust,
prove useful in future dealings with Canton.
2.
My conversations with the Provincial Officials
never once encroached on the field of politics; there was just
friendly intercourse with occasional pleasant references to
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.
Сори
&c.,
&C.,
&C.