SAVINGRAM
To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
From the Governor, Hong Kong.
Date
No.....
LO
5
we dare not conjecture.
From the above it will be seen that the question
of Hong Aong calls for a fair and just settlement. With the
exception of political offenders and traitors and the few
who earn their daily bread as employees of the Government all
the Chinese in Hong Kong are unwilling to see Hong Kong
permanently detached from China. We are sorry to record
that Sir Alexander Grantham was mistaken when he looked at
Hong Kong with his "twenty-year old eyes" and said that the
Chinese acquiesce in its continuance as a British Colony.
Since the advent of the Labour Government signs are
not lacking, for instance the grant of independence to India,
that the conservative British colonial policy is changing.
We hope that hereafter the British people will express more