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telegraphed to Mr. Howe, H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at
Nanking, to ask that ne should use his good offices in
any way to promote the successful administration of the
scheme pending the resumption of duty by H.M.Ambassador
nimself. Mr. Gull wants us to send a telegram to a
similar effect to the Officer Administering the Government
of Hong Kong, where the new Governor will not arrive until
the latter part of this month.
It will be noticed that the organisation is to
be set up in China, and I mentioned to Mr. Gull that he
would of course appreciate that the sphere of authority
of the Governor of Hong Kong did not extend beyond the
Colony's boundaries, but that presumably there would be
some branch of the organisation which would function in
Hong Kong, and in which the Governor could show a practical
Mr. Gull said that this was the idea and that
interest.
he would be telegraphing today to the Chamber of Commerce
in Hong Kong to ask them to co-operate fully with the
Chamber in Shanghai in the arrangements for setting up
the organisation to administer the money and material
contributed. He promised to send me a copy of that
telegram and I also said that I would ask the Foreign
Office to let us have a copy of the telegram which nad
been sent to H.M. Chargé d'Affaires at Nanking. I did
not doubt that we should be prepared to communicate to
a similar effect witn Mr. N.L.Smith.
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As soon as I receive the copy of Mr. Gull's
telegram to the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and the
Foreign Office telegram I will send on a draft telegram
to the 0.A.G.
Please return this file to me for this purpose.
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